Joel Cutler

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 16, 2022 by David Fialkow · said 52 times in 9 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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May 16, 2022
Insight
Fialkow: Co-founders must prioritize business needs over protecting their friendship
“Most people who start business with their friends, I think, can make a mistake. They say, let the business never get in the way of the friendship. We said the exact opposite. Let the friendship never get in the way of business.”
David Fialkow May 16, 2022 ▶ 6:52 20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
May 16, 2022
Assertion Supported
Fialkow built and sold four companies before founding General Catalyst
“Prior to founding General Catalyst with Joel Cutler, David was a serial entrepreneur. Building and selling no less than four successful companies.”
Harry Stebbings May 16, 2022 ▶ 0:26 20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
May 16, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Fialkow built a multi-hundred million dollar travel company without VC funding
“We built a business with several hundred million dollar business without ever having to raise venture capital.”
David Fialkow May 16, 2022 ▶ 4:16 20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
May 16, 2022 positive
Opinion
Fialkow: New leadership outperforms General Catalyst's original founders
“And in the years since They've all really taken on the day-to-day management of the firm. It's a much better place. I don't hate to admit. They have done a much better job than Joel and I ever did.”
David Fialkow May 16, 2022 ▶ 40:04 20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
May 16, 2022
Assertion Supported
General Catalyst's first $70M fund was structured as an LLC
“Well, the first fund was probably seventy million dollars, and it wasn't even in GPLP, it was an LLC, because of course we were building a company, which is the only thing we thought we knew how to do. It was seventy million, most of it was from us, and then a…”
David Fialkow May 16, 2022 ▶ 10:59 20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
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