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7 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2016 by Andy Rachleff · across every show →

Everything said about investment, oldest first

Jun 20, 2016
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Rachleff: Executive leadership skills do not translate to successful investment selection
“Being a CEO, the things that make you a very good leader have nothing to do with the things that make you very good at finding and choosing investments.”
Andy Rachleff Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 11:44 20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
Jun 20, 2016
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Rachleff: 90% of a VC's value creation comes purely from stock selection
“90% of the value added of a venture capitalist is finding and choosing the right investments.”
Andy Rachleff Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 11:58 20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
Jan 11, 2021
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Duke: Perform a pre-mortem immediately after making an investment
“As soon as you make an investment, you need to do premortem, and you need to say, what are the ways that this investment can go wrong?”
Annie Duke Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 24:24 20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
Mar 4, 2024
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Tangen: Investments are worth zero in an uninhabitable world
“Taken to the extreme, in an inhabitable world, the value of your investments are zero.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 31:16 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 29, 2024 neutral
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Mensch: Frontier AI investments will exceed revenue for years to come
“For the years to come the investment are going to exceed the revenue by design, because you do need to scale and you do need to stay relevant on the as the frontiers company.”
Arthur Mensch Apr 29, 2024 ▶ 45:05 Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 25, 2024 negative
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Vishria: VC memo culture focuses on irrelevant details over key questions
“I think this is why the memo writing culture at a lot of firms gets you in trouble because you put a lot of information You basically are, it encourages putting a lot of information that is like third and fourth order stuff Into document as if that is impactin…”
Eric Vishria Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 42:47 Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 31, 2025 negative
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Ferriss: Investments causing distress or family distraction are always bad investments
“If you make any investments that keep you up at night, that cause you to be distracted from your family, those are bad investments, even if they're returning record-setting compounded annual growth rates.”
Tim Ferriss Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 16:15 20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
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