Jason Pressman
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 19, 2017 by Jason Pressman · across every show →
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Jul 19, 2017 bullish
Jul 19, 2017 positive
IPOs for tech companies with 20% growth are a healthy market sign
“There are really good companies that grow at twenty-ish percent a year, and the fact that they are able to get public actually doesn't alarm me. I actually view it as a really healthy sign that good companies that are growing at reasonable rates, but not some …”
Jul 19, 2017 neutral
Late-stage $50M to $200M mega-rounds dried up in 2015 and 2016
“The very late stage private market valuations and private rounds have largely gone away. So in 2013, 14, even early 15, there were very large rounds done fifty hundred, two hundred million dollars in late stage private companies. And a lot of those investors d…”
Jul 19, 2017
SaaS startups with $10k to $100k annual contract values usually fail
“When you get caught in the middle, Somewhere between the 10 and a hundred K, you almost always end up on this slippery slope where your gross margins suck and you're upside down on your customer acquisition costs and the ultimate SAS model just doesn't work. A…”
Jul 19, 2017 negative
Early-stage VCs reacting to current public IPO markets is stupid
“What's going on in the public markets today has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on what a liquidity market's going to look like when those companies are ready to either go public or be acquired. So I think it's really stupid, but it's quite commonplace”
Jul 19, 2017 negative
The VC adage that you never regret paying high prices is bullshit
“Some VCs say that you never regret paying a high price for getting into a good company, but I think that that is a bullshit. I think that you never regret paying a high price for an extraordinary company like Facebook, but there's only really one like that eve…”