Jerry Chen

8 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2016 by Moisey Uretsky · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Oct 14, 2016 positive
Disclosure
Uretsky: DigitalOcean favored Jerry Chen and Peter Levine during Series A
“The two investors that we loved the most was Jerry Chan from Greylock and Peter Levine from Andreessen Horowitz.”
Moisey Uretsky Oct 14, 2016 ▶ 21:10 20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
Apr 2, 2018
Insight
Jerry Chen: Early founders should prioritize adoption over non-linear value
“Don't overthink about nonlinear value. Just make sure you're getting your product used by customers. And then after you get some adoption and kind of the later second act or third act of the company, then be a lot more conscious about bending that curve to cre…”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 21:41 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
Apr 2, 2018
Insight
Chen: Enterprise startups must address a buyer's top three priorities
“If you're not the top three priorities for your customer as a founder or executive, you either have to hit one of those top three priorities or convince her this should be a top three priority. Because it doesn't matter if you're the fifth or sixth wishlist on…”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 6:59 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
Apr 2, 2018 negative
Insight
Jerry Chen: Low-priced products cannot sustain complex direct sales forces
“If you have kind of a small unit value, that's low price point and have a complex direct sales force, the economics would never work out no matter how hard you try.”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 17:23 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
Apr 2, 2018
Insight
Jerry Chen: Budget-additive enterprise software requires a bottoms-up sales strategy
“If you're budget additive to a company, you probably want to be bottoms up selling motion and a small unit value. These new CIO or CFO is going to wake up saying, I need your new widget. So you have to be a small unit value and kind of bottoms up and that's in…”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 19:20 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
Apr 2, 2018
Insight
Chen: VCs fail when investing outside their strike zone
“People get in trouble when they start swinging outside the strike zone, if you will, and do things that are not comfortable with or not good at. And then that's when things kind of fall apart.”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 13:58 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
Apr 2, 2018
Insight
Chen: Venture risk divides into quantifiable probabilities and unquantifiable uncertainties
“There's really two or three categories of risk to think about. There's probabilities and uncertainties. I think probabilities are quantifiable risks, right? So the execution risk, the market risk, and you and I as investors can make an educated bet or guess on…”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 9:41 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
Apr 2, 2018 bullish
Opinion
Jerry Chen: AWS is beatable in specific product areas and markets
“Given this VC podcast, I would say that a lot of founders, investors don't think you can beat Amazon's cloud, AWS, but I actually think AWS is very beatable in certain product areas in certain markets, so I'm still bullish in finding companies that can challen…”
Jerry Chen Apr 2, 2018 ▶ 26:41 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
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