Iman Abuzeid
10 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2020 by Iman Abuzeid · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Mar 6, 2020 positive
Mar 6, 2020 positive
Turn imminent VC pitch rejections into free strategy consulting sessions
“Usually, you know, 10 minutes into the pitch that they're probably going to say no. You can just tell from their demeanor and how they're asking questions and stuff. But I'm like, you know, I just need to sit here for another 40 minutes, right? So I'm just goi…”
Mar 6, 2020 negative
Abuzeid: Homogeneous tech teams contain mediocrity by missing top talent across demographics
“I do truly believe that talent is evenly distributed, so what that means is that every single demographic, you're trying to hire the top five percent of white male men, or you're trying to hire the top five percent of Hispanic women, and so if you have a bunch…”
Mar 6, 2020 negative
Mar 6, 2020
Abuzeid: Managing personal psychology is a startup CEO's primary responsibility
“Ben Horowitz in his book, Hard Things About Hard Things, one of the first things he says is the number one job of the CEO is to manage your own psychology. And I've, now that I've been like in the trenches here, like it's so true.”
Mar 6, 2020
Abuzeid: Assertiveness and confidence, not substance alone, close investment checks
“Even if your content and your substance is fantastic, adding that confidence and assertiveness is extremely helpful as well. And that really is what ultimately Ends up getting checks, or sales, or people signing up for your team.”
Mar 6, 2020 positive
Abuzeid: Startup pivots should be celebrated, not ridiculed
“Pivots are extremely tough to go through psychologically. What it means is that, you know, we have to basically change the entire company and change what we're doing altogether, but they're very common, right, in Silicon Valley, and I guess they should be cele…”
Mar 6, 2020
Abuzeid adopted a privileged white male alter ego to project confidence
“I pretty much adopted an alter ego, and this alter ego actually happens to be a white male who, you know, who is highly privileged as well, because I had observed how members of that demographic operate. Like, I see them walking into a room, and the amount of …”
Jan 16, 2023 bullish
Jordan: Incredible Health could have gone from Series A to IPO
“Iman at Incredible had the just had this dream of, she called it A to IPO. She arguably could have never raised a B round and gone public. The business has that kind of momentum. And because she was quote unquote accidentally profitable, the bookings came in w…”
Jan 24, 2023 bullish
Jordan: Incredible Health Had More Cash Pre-Series B Than Post-Series A
“Incredible health went you know, we did the a, they went three years without raising while the business was going very well. And when Iman finally did raise earlier this year. She had more cash in the bank when she raised than she did when after we funded her.”