Josh Wolfe
8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2017 by Josh Wolfe · said 13 times in 9 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (8), Kyle Harrison (2), Shiv Rao (1), Sahil Bloom (1), David Frankel (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- 20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Josh Wolfe, oldest first
May 10, 2017 positive
Wolfe: Bill Gates Focuses on the 10% of Subject Matter Worth 90%
“He would listen and sit And think, and then it would be the ninety-ten of it, meaning he would get to the 10% of the subject matter that had 90% of the value. He was exceptionally tuned in to supporting founder, CEO, very astute on the economics of product, of…”
May 10, 2017 bullish
Wolfe: Investing with a 3-10 year horizon creates time arbitrage advantage
“If the public markets are thinking one or two years out and discounting back, and VCs are thinking one or two years out, then if you are thinking three, four, five, or let alone 10 years out, then you've got a time arbitrage advantage.”
May 10, 2017 neutral
Wolfe: Lux Capital avoids early-stage fundamental science risk
“We're not funding true science risk, right? Those are things that are coming Maybe five, 10, 15 years incubated, often publicly funded government science out of universities, but there reaches a point where you can see that they're starting to do something in …”
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 negative
Wolfe: Tech's Praise of Failure Is Disingenuous and Founders Are Faking It
“I think that there is a culture that talks about praising and prizing failure, but I think it's disingenuous. I think people pretend to wear failure on, you know, as this badge, and every time you ever see an entrepreneur and you ask, oh, how are things going,…”
May 10, 2017 neutral
Lux Capital Missed a $4B Exit by Selling Nervana to Intel Early
“In that case, I think we would have loved, collectively, amongst the other syndicate investors as well, that maybe we waited for You know, a year or two, because we probably, instead of selling for four hundred million to Intel, could have sold for four billio…”
May 10, 2017
Josh Wolfe: Big Breakthroughs Come From Renaissance-Style Interdisciplinary Founders
“And so I think the same thing is sort of happening in the entrepreneurial community on the one hand, where to make that incremental advance, you have to be really specialized, but because people are so specialized in all these different fields, the people that…”