Hussein Kanji
26 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 9 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2015 by Hussein Kanji · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Nov 9, 2015 bullish
Nov 9, 2015
Kanji: Founders must use social engineering to close seed funding rounds
“The best way to get any kind of round done is do the social engineering that you need to do to make sure other people in the market who are pretty well-regarded are talking you up, because that's the best way to get venture firms super excited.”
Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: VCs get no upside arguing with non-portfolio founders
“Yeah, I'm kind of in the same camp. There's no upside from, like, arguing with people. I mean, argue with your founders who are, like, in your, like, they're in your family, right? You're an investor, you're a long, but, like, there's the outside world.”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Kanji: A $10M seed round doubles outlier odds versus $5M
“And there is a statistical, like, correlation between if a seed round raises, like, a hundred K, the probability of it becoming an outlier is very, very, very, very small. Kind of makes sense. If that seed round goes up to, like, ten million, the odds between …”
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: European startup conversion rates match US, but funding amounts lag
“And the biggest structural problem that we have in the UK and Europe, the conversion rate between series, between seed and series A to series B to series C, is basically these days on par with the US. But the capitalization of our companies from seed to series…”
Jan 20, 2025
Kanji: Seed Funds Cannot Rescue Startups Without Heavy Capital Reserves
“The lesson for us is like, this hard work stuff, you need to be well capitalized to be able to do, and some, sometimes it's not our place. Like, even if we could do the work, we don't have the capital base to be able to do these things.”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Kanji: Venture VCs aim to build scale monopolies despite regulatory resistance
“We as a venture industry have to think about how to create monopolies. Like, the regulator doesn't want monopolies, but we want monopolies. We want companies with increasing returns to scale, with deep defensible moats. You build this thing, it has this huge m…”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jan 20, 2025 negative
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Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jan 20, 2025 bullish
Kanji: I plan to hand over Hoxton Ventures leadership within a decade
“I would love for us to have built a partnership, and I'm thinking actively about this, and I can hand the reins over where I'm just one of a few, and someone else is running the firm. If I can do that successfully over the next decade, I know I have a durable …”
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: Early European Seed Funds Eden and Pond Mismanaged Capital
“In fact, the seed funds of record here, you won't even remember the names. They were Eden and Pond. They're like a bygone, right? The people raised money in the dot-com boom, mismanaged their capital all the way through the collapse, and kind of left.”
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: VC Employees Optimize for Fast Markups Over Real Returns
“If you're the general employee, you optimize for getting to the next career ladder, and how do you show that you can get to the next career ladder? You do a deal, and then General Catalyst, or Index, or Kleiner, or Sequoia, or Andreessen, I mean, there are so …”
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: Multi-Stage VC Funds Treat Early Checks as Simple Call Options
“But these days, with the growth of those guys, it's all call options for them, right? They will invest into something and see how it plays out, so they can write the 30, fifty million dollar check, where it starts to get meaningful.”
Jan 20, 2025
Kanji: Mega private tech companies must maintain public-level SEC compliance
“Once you get to that kind of size, you end up having to comply with all the SEC stuff. So you may not be publicly traded, but you're complying and doing, you have all the infrastructure to actually go public at any time that you want because you've had to buil…”
Jan 20, 2025 neutral
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Kanji: Most European VCs Are Momentum Investors Seeking Quick Markups
“I think most of us become momentum investors in this industry. We write the check largely to get the next markup, not to build the long-term, durable, big company of tomorrow. And I don't think there are that many people in Europe who do those kinds of things.”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Kanji: Seed investors should sell early if offered a 50x return
“If someone offers you like, 50 X on your first investment, maybe there's actually a reason to take some money off the table. But, you know, normally you would have said, do that, you get your 50 X's at the IPO stage, or at the very late stages, and then the sa…”