Fifty Years

6 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2017 by Seth Bannon · said 17 times in 7 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Aug 7, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bannon: Fifty Years requires a clear path to $1B in revenue
“Our sort of like very high level filters are we want founders that are interested in building billion dollar businesses that have positive impact. Then we want to see ourselves a path to a billion dollars in revenue. And then we want to see ourselves the path …”
Seth Bannon Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 13:48 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
Aug 7, 2017 negative
Opinion
Bannon: The Friedman Doctrine is one of history's most dangerous economic ideas
“We think it's actually one of the most wrongheaded and probably dangerous doctrines in the history of the world, and I know it sounds a little Strange to say that an economic doctrine is very dangerous, but we think it's allowed a lot of businesses to pursue p…”
Seth Bannon Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 7:41 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
Aug 7, 2017 positive
Opinion
Bannon: Mission-driven funds get more technical diligence help than traditional VCs
“Given our fund's mission, people are willing to help us do that more so than they would be with a traditional fund.”
Seth Bannon Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 24:43 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
Aug 7, 2017 positive
Insight
Bannon: Solving societal problems gives startups a systemic competitive advantage
“I believe you can. And so, we get this question a lot, and one of, I think, the analogies that I like to give is, at some point, people thought the transition to the cloud was going to be a really big deal, and that cloud-based companies would have very real a…”
Seth Bannon Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 8:29 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
Aug 7, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Bannon: Deep tech startups should shift to debt after three equity rounds
“So almost every single deep tech company that we've invested in has a clear path to growing off of equity for maybe three rounds, and then growing off of project or debt financing for the rest of their life.”
Seth Bannon Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 17:59 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
Aug 7, 2017 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bannon: Synthetic biology seed costs now match standard SaaS seed budgets
“There have been a number of changes over the last five years that actually allow you to get from idea to prototype product on the same amount of money you would need to raise for a seed round if you're raising for a SaaS company, right?”
Seth Bannon Aug 7, 2017 ▶ 16:12 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
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