Fred Turner
19 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 18, 2026 by Fred Turner · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
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Jul 18, 2026 neutral
Jul 18, 2026 negative
Jul 18, 2026
A $1.5B Total Market Is Too Small To Raise A Series A
“And there's about a hundred million cows in the US. If you're doing well, you could charge 15 to 20 dollars per test. So even if you assume you could test every cow every year, you'd be at 1.5 billion, like total market, which is not enough to do a series A of…”
Jul 18, 2026 negative
Jul 18, 2026 positive
Jul 18, 2026 neutral
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Jul 18, 2026
Fred Turner Sold CLIA License For $150K, Re-Bought Same For $27M
“And then in December of 2019, as part of the wind down, I sold that license to a company in San Diego for 150,000 dollars to pay some of the creditors. And then five months later, acquired a company in Southern California to get the same license for twenty sev…”
Jul 18, 2026 positive
Nuclear Energy's Main Challenge Is Regulatory, Not Engineering
“That it is very safe. And that it's not a science or engineering problem. Like that was when we started looking at companies to invest in, that was for me, that the thing that I was sort of disappointed by is everybody was approaching it as if nuclear is this …”
Jul 18, 2026
Jul 18, 2026 bearish
Coal Power Generation Will Mostly Disappear Over The Next Decade
“I mean, I think any power from coal will mostly go away. I think you're still going to see a lot of gas, just because, particularly in the US, it's cheap, it works, it's fast, but I think coal is going to go away, and then you're just going to see more of ever…”
Jul 18, 2026 bullish
Jul 18, 2026
Strategic Investor Pulling Series B Term Sheet Caused Shield's Collapse
“Ended up getting a term sheet from a strategic, large public diagnostic company. Signed the term sheet, did three weeks of work on docs. We were in the second round of docs, and then their CEO killed it because it was too competitive with their core products. …”
Jul 18, 2026
Jul 18, 2026 negative
UK VCs Refused Meetings When Fred Turner Was 18
“Like when I found, I tried to raise a venture around in the UK and I couldn't even get meetings. This was when I was like, I was 18. I was in like first year of college and I was doing this startup on the side. I couldn't even get meetings with, I think I got …”
Jul 18, 2026 bullish
Jul 18, 2026 bullish
Jul 18, 2026 positive
Jul 18, 2026 neutral
Payers Ultimately Drive All Behavior In US Healthcare
“Everything sort of ends up coming back to the payer. Like, the payer is the one that drives behavior in the US healthcare system. If you are providing the dollars, people will go where the dollars aren't. If you say I'm going to pay for this service, people wi…”