Jeff Lieberman
13 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2022 by Jeff Lieberman · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- 20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
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Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022
Lieberman: Macro trends, not just fundamentals, drive 10x to 30x venture returns
“So kind of the company gets you to a base case, but the macros are what allows you to break out and really see tail. Because if you don't have those macros, it's kind of hard to break out and have, you know, a 10, 15, 20, 30 time your money kind of investment.”
Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022
Lieberman: Failed deals provided necessary conviction for subsequent profitable investments
“I invested in a lot of companies where I lost money, and ultimately, those companies led me to another investment where I made a lot of money, and if I didn't invest in the first company, I would have never had the courage and the conviction and learnings to i…”
Mar 28, 2022 negative
Mar 28, 2022 positive
Lieberman: Insight Partners analysts have full control over senior partners' calendars
“When an analyst joins Insight, they basically have full cart, blanche control of senior partners' calendars, and what I mean by that is if an analyst walks into my office and says, Jeff, I got this really cool company. I want you to talk to them tomorrow. I ta…”
Mar 28, 2022 neutral
Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022
Jeff Lieberman: Managing people is harder than the analytical work in VC
“Managing people is definitely the hardest part of the job and the emotional side of it and understanding their needs. I mean, the analytical stuff is fun and easy, and you know, the numbers don't Yell back, but the people do, and like, putting yourself out the…”
Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022 negative
Lieberman: Command-and-Control Venture Capital Firms Will Become Outdated
“In a world that's decentralized, in a world that's global, in a world that's innovating very quickly, you need to hire super, super smart, super energetic, super passionate, inquisitive people to go find really interesting stuff, and if it's command and contro…”
Mar 28, 2022 bearish
Lieberman: VC industry's 50% returns are ridiculous, unsustainable, and will mean revert
“50% returns I read this weekend across the industry. Like, as an industry, that's ridiculous. Massively unsustainable. We're not all that smart. We're not all that good, including myself. It's not possible. So there's clearly something going on, and there'll b…”