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Jeremy Liew

19 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 19, 2018 by Jeremy Liew · said 47 times in 23 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Feb 19, 2018
Insight
Jeremy Liew: Founders can only drive three major initiatives at once
“A good founder, a good exec needs to be so focused and have their blinkers on because they can only really drive perhaps three initiatives at the company at a time.”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 15:14 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Feb 19, 2018
Disclosure
Jeremy Liew: Lightspeed invested $475k in Snapchat at $4.25M valuation
“It was a 475 A thousand dollar investment at a four and a quarter million dollar pre-money valuation when the company was just the two founders.”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 8:42 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Feb 19, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Liew: Snapchat grew 50% month-over-month prior to Lightspeed's investment
“It was growing at a 50% per month rate. It was showing incredible retention and incredible engagement.”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 8:59 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Feb 19, 2018 positive
Insight
Jeremy Liew: Young women and Black youth predict future consumer tech trends
“If you follow what young women and young African Americans do today, you'll get a window into what we'll all do in the future. I think they're the really, the early adopters of popular culture, and so we always look for apps and services that over-index to tho…”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 19:59 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Feb 19, 2018 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liew: Word-of-mouth distribution will always remain free and open
“And that word of mouth, It's always going to be free. It's always going to be open. And, you know, if you can find the core of that fund, you're going to have a decent time.”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 8:15 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Feb 19, 2018 bullish
Opinion
Liew: Pessimism around consumer tech investing is unwarranted
“I actually say that the evidence suggests that there's actually a lot of breakthroughs happening on the consumer side. You know, HQ Trivia is having a moment right now. TBH, Saraja, Marco Polo, Musical.ly, as we mentioned, Cheddar, Prisma, Pokemon Go, all on t…”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 6:09 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Feb 19, 2018 positive
Insight
Liew: Junior professionals should advance by following exceptional strategic leaders
“As a junior person, you can really ride in the slipstream of their upward career mobility if you find the right people to sort of follow around, because there are just some people who just, I don't know, they operate on a higher level of thought strategically,…”
Jeremy Liew Feb 19, 2018 ▶ 4:09 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Being The First Investor in Snapchat, Why The Pessimism Around Consumer Is Wrong & Why Silicon Valley Is An Isolated Bubble and What Can Be Done To Change This
Apr 22, 2019
Insight
Liew: Founders should build VC relationships early rather than always raising
“You shouldn't always be raising. It's exhausting, but if you're going to consider adding someone to your board, that person is going to be on your board for years, and if you're going to make that decision on the basis of having met somebody two or three times…”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 26:08 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jeremy Liew averages two board meetings and seven portfolio calls weekly
“And so on average, I have two board meetings per week. And then seven, I just did a analysis of my calendar for a couple of months as did Alex Taussig and Nicole Quinn. And so, so this, these numbers are sort of top of mind, but two, two board meetings per wee…”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 28:08 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019 positive
Insight
Liew: VCs must prioritize existing portfolio companies over new pitches
“Like if you're not available to the people you've already committed to work with, you know, you're not doing your job properly. You have to prioritize that over taking a company meeting for a new pitch.”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 28:33 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019
Insight
Liew: VCs should limit diligence to 3-5 thesis points over checklists
“If you have a very clear investment thesis, and, like, there's two or three things that you would need to believe to believe that this company can be extraordinary, and one or two things that you would need to verify to make sure that it's not going to be a di…”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 24:57 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019
Insight
Liew: VCs must see 1,000 companies to spot a 1-in-1,000 outlier
“The job of venture is to spot that one in a thousand company. Not one in a hundred, not one in 10, but one in a thousand. And the challenge is you don't know what a one in a thousand company looks like until you've seen at least a thousand companies.”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 5:59 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019 negative
Insight
Liew: Former operators turned VCs are most prone to over-steering founders
“People who used to be operators are most prone to, because they're actually used to making the key decisions, and if they had senior roles in their operating companies in the past, they might actually be used to, quote unquote, overruling the team when their j…”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 13:25 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019
Disclosure
Liew: Requires email traction metrics before taking Series A/B meetings
“At the series A and series B, yeah, I will definitely be asking a lot more questions via email and oftentimes looking for some, threshold level of engagement or retention or growth or usage before I'll take a meeting.”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 7:00 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019
Insight
Liew: VC sourcing depends on work ethic, likability, and network density
“At the end of the day, this comes down to work ethic. It comes down to likability, and it comes down to being part of connected networks that are likely to have a higher propensity to have entrepreneurs coming out of them.”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 7:58 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019 negative
Insight
Liew: Investors cannot make a good company great through investor value alone
“Folks who believe that they can take a good company and make it great by sheer value being an investor, I think in general, maybe being a little bit too optimistic.”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 13:10 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019
Insight
Liew: Failing to Spot Channel Saturation Is Startups' Top Scaling Mistake
“Specifically around starting to scale, I think perhaps the most common mistake that people can make is not recognizing when the channel on which they're scaling is going to start to reach saturation.”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 17:24 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Apr 22, 2019 positive
Insight
Liew: VCs have an obligation to respond to every entrepreneur
“I know that that's not a perspective that's shared for by everybody, but I think that we have an obligation to respond to every aspiring entrepreneur, even if, you know, their ideas are not well thought through or their ask is unreasonable. We have an obligati…”
Jeremy Liew Apr 22, 2019 ▶ 31:13 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
Feb 24, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evan Spiegel Met Liew Because of His Obama Facebook Profile Photo
“At the time, I had as my profile a picture of me at Obama from a fundraiser that I had attended. During his first election campaign, and he said, well, you know, you had a picture of you and Obama there, so I figured you must be a decent person. So I figured I…”
Jeremy Liew Feb 24, 2021 ▶ 6:34 20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
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