Howard Lindzon
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 17, 2016 by Howard Lindzon · said 7 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- 20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- 20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- 20VC: How 50% Of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, How To Build A Relationship Of Trust With Your VC and How Entrepreneurs Can Detect VC BS with Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Howard Lindzon, oldest first
Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016
Lindzon: Investors cannot understand down cycles without personally losing money
“People need to lose money to really understand how the markets work, and you can lose that money in a private deal or in the public markets, but until you're cut and bleed and see how co-investors behave with you and how the entrepreneur feels, I don't think y…”
Oct 17, 2016 bearish
Lindzon: Public market investors only need around 12 core brand stocks
“Where startups versus the stock market differ is that in the stock market, I don't think you need 500 stocks, the S&P 500. I think an average person can own 12 companies. I call them eight to 80 brands that you use from eight years old to 80 years old have a d…”
Oct 17, 2016 bullish
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Oct 17, 2016 positive
Oct 17, 2016
Lindzon: Investors should write the check if price is the only objection
“If you like the CEO, and you like the opportunity, and you like the market, and every single thing about this says yes, and the only reason you say no in a private, this is private stuff, not public check, and the only reason you say no is the price, well, you…”
Oct 17, 2016
Lindzon: 50% of his 2006-2008 angel portfolio succeeded fantastically
“Luckily for me, I probably lost on my first four back in 99 when everybody lost money in the bubble. But when I really started investing after I sold Wallstrip I caught a great crop of entrepreneurs in 2006, 2007, 2008, and I would say 50% of the companies wor…”
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Oct 17, 2016 positive
Lindzon: Angel investing boom driven by passive market flows, not bubble
“This whole angel investing phenomenon is partly due to this Vanguard S&P 500 and the way the public markets are working. So people that call this a bubble I don't really understand the full scope of money and money flows and the whole ecosystem of investing, b…”
Oct 17, 2016 negative
Lindzon: Passive index investing will trigger massive corporate fallout
“And so it's destroying creativity and it's also you're going to start to see some massive fallout i can't predict when but you're starting to see cracks companies misbehaving again because you know it's okay for wells Wells Fargo as part of the S&P 500 to misb…”