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Jeffrey Katzenberg

13 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2022 by Jeffrey Katzenberg · across every show →

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Nov 23, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Katzenberg: Quibi returned $600M of its initial $1B to investors
“We returned six hundred million dollars out of the initial billion dollars to our investors, and I don't think I would have gotten there without him.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 11:57 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 23, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Katzenberg: Bringing Pixar to Disney was his most transformative career moment
“For me, probably the most transformative moment is when I reached out to Steve Jobs and John Lasseter and brought them into the Walt Disney Company and made a home for Pixar.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 5:54 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 23, 2022
Insight
Katzenberg: Delaying firing bad hires for months kills companies
“Because if they're not going to work out inside of your enterprise, your company, whatever it is that you're building, the faster you get to that, the better. That's one of the lessons I learned along the way, which is, I had seen, ok, well let's give them thr…”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 23:53 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 23, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Katzenberg: Companies will return to in-person work for key roles
“The value of people being together in certain types of functions inside of companies, I think is invaluable. And I think it's been underestimated, and I think you'll see a return to it. It may not happen overnight, but it'll get there.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 30:49 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 23, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Katzenberg: Never lost investor money in 40-year career prior to Quibi
“In my entire career, I have never lost money for somebody who invested or backed me in what I was doing, ever.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 13:20 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 23, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Katzenberg: Silicon Valley layoffs will fuel the next generation of startups
“Harry, I'm going to say to you, not only do I feel it's not dead, I'm going to take a contrary point of view that what in fact is going on in the Valley today is going to create a whole new crop, a whole new generation, because all the downsizing that's going …”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 19:08 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 23, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Katzenberg: Venture market will take longer to right-size due to delayed choices
“Just that it's going to take longer for it to right size itself or the economic environment that we're in. People will hold on longer than they should and not make the hard choices that they need to make to succeed.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 35:21 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
Nov 26, 2022
Disclosure
Katzenberg realized a COO hire was a mistake within two days
“I've had things where I hired a COO of my company, and the day after he arrived, right, two days after he arrived, I went, oh my god, this is not going to work. I, and right, and like, I mean, literally, it was a big headline news in the business, and you know…”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 30:58 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 26, 2022
Assertion Contradicted
Katzenberg: Quibi was his first time losing investor money in 40 years
“In my entire career, I have never lost money for somebody who invested or backed me in what I was doing ever before this, which for someone who spent 40 years in media and entertainment, that's a unicorn.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 12:42 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 26, 2022
Disclosure
Katzenberg: Quibi returned $600M of its initial $1B to investors
“We returned six hundred million dollars out of the initial billion dollars to our investors”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 10:35 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 26, 2022
What-if
Katzenberg: DreamWorks' survival depended on pivoting to computer animation
“And for me, having lived through the disruption of hand-drawn animation to computer animation I would say was, you know, probably one of the greatest challenges, and our survival literally depended on our ability to make a pivot. It was brutal. We lost a lot o…”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 4:47 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 26, 2022
Assertion Supported
Katzenberg: Bringing Steve Jobs and Pixar to Disney was transformative
“For me, probably the most transformative moment is when you know, I reached out to Steve Jobs and John Lasseter and brought them into the Walt Disney Company and made a home for Pixar.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 2:36 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 26, 2022
Disclosure
Katzenberg schedules three breakfasts and two lunches every single day
“So some of it comes from my three breakfasts and two lunches and dinners.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 21:00 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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