Gili Raanan
30 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2024 by Gili Raanan · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Mar 18, 2024
Raanan targets founders who overcame severe childhood hardships like divorce and isolation
“So I'm looking for the individual who, whose parents went through ugly divorces. I'm looking for the individual who lived in a closet for a while. I'm looking for the individual who was a socially isolated child. I'm looking for people who went through real di…”
Mar 18, 2024 negative
Mar 18, 2024 neutral
Mar 18, 2024 negative
Gili Raanan: Being first to market in cybersecurity is not an advantage
“I think that cyber security is, is a market where being first to market is not necessarily an advantage. Sometimes it's better to be number two, number three to market. And come in with more knowledge, more context, and simply, you know, deliver a better produ…”
Mar 18, 2024
Raanan: Evaluate people by their motivations rather than their accomplishments
“You get to know someone not by looking at what, you know, the list, the inventory of their, ah, doings of their accomplishments. You get to know someone when you understand why they pick to do that. That would tell you much more about that person.”
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Mar 18, 2024 neutral
Mar 18, 2024 bullish
Mar 18, 2024 bullish
Mar 18, 2024
Gili Raanan: Enterprise software seeds require at least $5M to $6M
“Enterprise software companies, cyber security included. I found out that you need at least five or six million dollars just to get Team, product built, and a small go to market team to win few deals. That's what it typically take to build an enterprise softwar…”
Mar 18, 2024 negative
Mar 18, 2024
Raanan: Cyberstarts interviews founders about childhood background rather than product or market
“When I started CiderStarts in 2018, I decided that I would not even ask them about market or technology or product, you know, so I meet with a team, a new team, which I don't know, and we spend an hour, you know, speaking about their childhood and their mother…”
Mar 18, 2024
Mar 18, 2024
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Mar 18, 2024 bullish
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Raanan: Laziness combined with the right traits drives focus and efficiency
“I think that laziness in, in, in the right combination is a wonderful trait. You know, it makes you think about efficiency. It makes you think about not repeating tasks you don't like and focus on the things you really like and you're really good at.”
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Gili Raanan: Generation-defining startups are consistently expensive across all funding rounds
“And the best companies, if you look at it, were insanely expensive at SEED, insanely expensive at Series A, insanely expensive at Series B, and so on. It's, you know, it's like almost part of their DNA to be expensive companies.”
Mar 28, 2026
Gili Raanan: Let venture partners focus on strengths, not fixing weaknesses
“My view on that is that I would let each team member play on the relative strengths. And would not require them to focus on improving their weaknesses, but actually play more, more often and stronger on the relative advantages. Cause on the weaknesses at the b…”
Mar 28, 2026
Mar 28, 2026 neutral
Mar 28, 2026
Mar 28, 2026 bullish
Gili Raanan: Over-Capitalizing Founders Is Not a Risk for VCs
“I'm not in a business of babysitting founders. And for me, this is like babysitting the founder. If we trust them to build, in my case, an important cybersecurity company that's critical to all the major banks in the US, and you put in their hands the safety o…”
Mar 28, 2026
Mar 28, 2026 neutral
Raanan: An IPO is a marketing event, not a liquidity event
“Going public is not a financial event. It's a branding event. It's a, it's an occasion where you tell your customers, your partners, your employees, your future employees, I'm here to stay. That's IPO. Cause typically it's not a financial event. It's not a liq…”
Mar 28, 2026 bullish
Raanan: Within five years, a startup will make Wiz's growth look slow
“I'm, Confident that five years from now, I, I'll be able to show you, I'll be able to demonstrate another team that, you know, showing that actually wheeze was a slog and they can move much faster and they've done whatever it is.”
Mar 28, 2026
Raanan: My hardest day in investing was shutting down my first investment
“When the first company I invested in Shut down. I had to shut it down. That was super hard. That was, because it's a very public failure. It's a failure that you cannot cover. It's a failure that you know, you have to deal with.”
Mar 28, 2026 negative
Gili Raanan: Venture Capital Is Difficult Because Feedback Takes Five Years
“And I think that, that's what makes this profession, you know, in many ways, it's a terrible profession. You know, it's a profession where you don't know if you are good in what you're doing for five or six years. You know, show me another profession where you…”
Mar 28, 2026