Ilya Fushman

8 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2016 by Ilya Fushman · said 32 times in 13 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Everything said about Ilya Fushman, oldest first

Sep 19, 2016
Assertion Supported
Fushman's solar startup built the most efficient and expensive solar cell
“We built the world's most efficient solar cell. It was also the world's most expensive solar cell, so that didn't quite work out.”
Ilya Fushman Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 3:10 20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
Sep 19, 2016
Insight
Fushman: Scaling requires turning implicit leader knowledge into documented processes
“As you scale, you need to start investing a lot more in communication and transferring the knowledge that's in your heads and verbalizing it and putting it in some kind of processes for everybody else.”
Ilya Fushman Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 6:30 20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
Sep 19, 2016 negative
Insight
Fushman: VCs giving operational advice must avoid being prescriptive
“It's dangerous to be prescriptive.”
Ilya Fushman Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 14:36 20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
Sep 19, 2016
Insight
Fushman: Venture feedback cycles differ fundamentally from product development
“The feedback cycles in venture are incredibly different from the feedback cycles of building and shipping products, and that's probably the biggest gap.”
Ilya Fushman Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 11:52 20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
Aug 7, 2020
Disclosure
Loom raised Series A from Kleiner after Index rejected their seed
“Now, we ended up fundraising from Ilya, who had moved over to Kleiner at that point from Index, but we were worried, even though he individually had a ton of conviction about Loom, we weren't able to get the seed round done with Index, and so there was no guar…”
Joe Thomas Aug 7, 2020 ▶ 25:38 20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
Oct 22, 2020 positive
Opinion
McCabe: Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman is his favorite board member
“I loved working with Ilya Fushman. He's with Kleiner Perkins these days. Ilya was always just real. I'm a stickler for integrity and authenticity, and Ilya was what he was and is what he is, and There was no games. It wasn't hard to figure out, and I admired t…”
Eoghan McCabe Oct 22, 2020 ▶ 26:55 20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules
Jan 29, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hubert Palan: Ilya Fushman conducted deep on-site diligence for Productboard's Series A
“But if I look at our, even the early round series A, like Ilya Fushman showed up at our office, you know, for people here at WeWork, but like he wanted to see the other people. He wanted to talk to people. So like, you know, he did a very good diligence and th…”
Hubert Palan Jan 29, 2021 ▶ 11:37 20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
Oct 25, 2024
Insight
Goldberg: Investors should pay up for category winners over #2 or #3 players
“Yeah, so I think one of the lessons I learned from Index Ventures, and certainly two of my mentors, Mike Volpe, Ilya Fushman, was you want to be in the category winner, and when you need to pay up to be in a category winner, that's something that I think a lot…”
Mark Goldberg Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 16:58 Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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