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Jim Swartz

12 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2021 by Jim Swartz · said 16 times in 5 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Nov 8, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swartz: Accel's inaugural 1983 fund was the easiest it ever raised
“I mean, I think it was the easiest fund we ever raised. We raised it in the 90 days or so, and as Arthur points out, it was a particularly ebullient era.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 8:24 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swartz: Accel was named to be near the alphabet's beginning
“The Accel name, both Arthur and I spent our lives at the tail end of the alphabet. We wanted something at the front end of the alphabet. Going through a dictionary, he came across, it's actually a music term. It's short for accelerando, if you're into music.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 7:22 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 bearish
Assertion Contradicted
Swartz: Tech revenue multiples in 2021 are 3x to 5x historical peaks
“We're at three to five X where we've ever been in our lifetime in terms of price to revenue of companies, three to five X where we were at the peak ever before”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 20:06 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Swartz: Accel avoids Sand Hill Road offices to prevent groupthink
“In terms of culture, that's why we never, ever would have an office on Sand Hill Road. We want to be anti-Sand Hill Road. We want to be anti-culture, venture capital culture. We want our own culture, independent thought processes.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 35:44 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Patterson: Kleiner Perkins invested in Accel's $40M telecom fund in the 1980s
“Jim had made a really strategic move in about 83, 85, where we raised that XL-II was actually a focused telecom fund of a smaller size, but I think it was about forty million, and I think KP even invested in it.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 13:27 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swartz: Accel's 1989 Fund III was the firm's most challenging raise
“Oh, it's very clear. It was the third fund, which we raised in 1989 because I mean, I could write a book on the tactics to get that damn thing done. It took us a year, maybe a little more.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 9:29 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 bearish
Insight
Swartz: 100x revenue valuations are unsustainable and subject to mean reversion
“Everything reverts to the mean at some point. And, you know, a hundred times revenue is just not sustainable.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 21:48 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Swartz: Accel co-founders began relinquishing firm equity around 2000
“So we started giving up our ownership in the firm, you know, beginning around 2000 or so late nineties, early 2000 started scaling back, which allowed others to grow.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 24:29 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021 bearish
Disclosure
Swartz: Selling high-priced assets expecting an imminent market crash
“Personally, I'm behaving like There's a major crash coming. And so whatever opportunity I have to get out of very high priced assets, I do.”
Jim Swartz Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 21:24 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Nov 8, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Patterson: Citicorp shut down its UK venture arm due to no deals
“When Jim was at Citicorp Venture Capital, one of his first jobs was to go to close down their English operation because there weren't any good deals in Europe.”
Arthur Patterson Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 29:22 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
Jun 29, 2022 bearish
Assertion Contradicted
Swartz: Revenue Multiples Are 3x to 5x Above Historical Peaks
“If you do a careful analysis of the multiples here in the marketplace, we're at three to five X where we've ever been in our lifetime, price to revenue of companies, three to five X where we were at the peak ever before.”
Jim Swartz Jun 29, 2022 ▶ 7:00 20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
Jun 29, 2022 bearish
Disclosure
Jim Swartz Is Exiting Overvalued Assets Ahead of Expected Market Crash
“I'm behaving like there's a major crash coming and whatever opportunity I have to get out of very high priced assets I do, but I'm continuing to invest and continuing to plow back.”
Jim Swartz Jun 29, 2022 ▶ 7:16 20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
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