Jason Wilk

10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 21, 2025 by Jason Wilk · across every show →

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Apr 21, 2025 negative
Insight
Wilk: Capping Credit Card APRs Drives Consumers to Payday Loans
“The reason why People charge what they do for risk is because there's risk. And the second you take away someone's ability to monetize just means they shrink the funnel. So it's like, great job. You capped rates. You just kicked a bunch of people out of the cr…”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 53:37 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Wilk: Dave Has Zero Preferred Equity and Zero Debt
“I mean, Dave, we have no preferred equity on our cap table. We have no debt in our business.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 10:14 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilk: Distressed Startup Sales Will Begin Only When Cash Depletes
“It will come. It just has not come yet. I still think people, there needs to be more time for the capital to burn. People need to actually run out of money for that to happen.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 8:37 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Wilk: No Regrets Taking Dave Public via SPAC Merger
“Honestly, I don't regret going out via SPAC.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 15:40 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 positive
Opinion
Wilk: Revolut Excels at Rapid International Expansion and Regulatory Setup
“I would say a lot of respect for what Revolut's doing. I think they're, I'd almost call it like regulatory as a service. Their ability to just go into these different countries and set up operations is pretty remarkable.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 56:38 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wilk: Mark Cuban Capped Startup Salary at $30K Until Profitability
“And back then, Mark actually capped my salary at 30,000 dollars a year until we could get the company profitable.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 3:51 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 negative
What-if
Wilk: Going Public 9 Months Earlier Would Have Prevented Dave's Crash
“Had I gone public nine months earlier, we would have had the chance to raise potentially more capital. We would have been able to Turn over our earlier shareholders, bring more longer term capital. And like, we never would have gone to a five billion dollar va…”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 16:30 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Wilk: Massive Preference Stacks Blocked Dave From Acquiring Small Startups
“There's a lot of companies that we would have probably bought by now that are very small, but have raised a couple hundred million dollars of prep. And so it just makes their inevitable outcome Impossible.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 8:11 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wilk: Short-Seller Reports Often Contain Incorrect Facts and Exaggerations
“They're actually writing research on a company to get people to short it. And oftentimes those facts are incorrect. They're assumptions. They're, you know, they can be blown out of proportion for things that, again, are just for purely for profit.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 59:06 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 21, 2025 positive
Opinion
Wilk: Trump Administration is Better for Business Than Biden
“Well, just his approach to less regulation in general. Again, this is less of an overhang for companies just to focus on building true innovative products without the need to constantly feel like they're going to trip some government wire.”
Jason Wilk Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 53:12 Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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