Jamin Ball
15 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 10, 2024 by Jamin Ball · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 10, 2024 positive
Ball: Founders should raise smaller, milestone-based rounds to minimize cap table risk
“And like the way that we talk about it internally is don't make the cap table a risk to your business, right? Build a business the old fashioned way, raise smaller amounts of money, right? More frequently that are more milestone based. Where, when you raise a …”
Jan 10, 2024 bearish
Jan 10, 2024 positive
Ball: Recycling proceeds from modest exits can rescue difficult fund vintages
“And so I think what you do have is a lot of investors who are thinking now, Hey, Is that a good thing? Should we be doing that? And I think that can be a way of finding returns for investors in funds that were more challenging vintages. But I think the wrong a…”
Jan 10, 2024 positive
Ball: Public market scrutiny forces tech companies to build long-term endurance
“Like that will force companies to get fit. That will force companies to talk about their path to profitability. It will force companies to think about why are we an enduring business over the next 10 years? And while it may seem scary, it's actually like a goo…”
Jan 10, 2024 bearish
Jan 10, 2024 positive
Ball: Transitioning from point solution to platform drives top SaaS success
“And you see some of the most successful public companies today, the crowd strikes of the world, the data dogs of the world, right? And it's exactly what you just said. It's moving from a point solution to a platform. Like that's really hard.”
Jan 10, 2024
Ball: Public-caliber SaaS companies must sustain 30% to 50% growth at $100M+ ARR
“And when I say public market type company, what does that mean? It's you are sustaining growth at a 102 hundred million plus of ARR, right? Sustaining, meaning you're growing, call it 30, 40, 50% plus. The universe of companies that can do that is Very small, …”
Jan 10, 2024
Ball: SaaS startups stall at $50M ARR when failing to penetrate enterprise
“The market just wasn't that big, right? There were some early adopters, maybe in Silicon Valley, that were using your product But the reality is, is you never really broke into the enterprise, right? You never really broke into where the big dollars were, and …”
Jan 10, 2024 negative
Jan 10, 2024
Ball: Overestimating growth durability was my biggest investing mistake
“The mistakes that I made right when I reflect back was that middle category, right? It was forecasting wrong. It was saying, Hey, I think I'm identifying a good market and a good business, but I had an expectation for growth durability. That just didn't happen…”
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024 negative
Jan 10, 2024
Ball: Complex VC exits take 12 to 18 months due to investor alignment
“This is why these processes end up taking 12, 18 months is because it's not 12, 18 months of negotiating with an acquirer or figuring out how to do a dividend back to the preferred, right? It takes 18 months because these are really hard decisions that are oft…”
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024 bullish