Katherine Boyle
25 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 1, 2020 by Katherine Boyle · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2020 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- 20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
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Oct 1, 2020
Boyle: Journalist VC's Superpower Is Listening and Pressure-Testing Founder Conviction
“I'd say that the core superpower of a former journalist or the core superpower of many investors is to just listen to the And actually decide whether you believe the story to be true, and then be kind of a helpful, almost Socratic guide to the founder on their…”
Oct 1, 2020 bullish
Oct 1, 2020 bullish
Boyle: Anduril's Founding Team Is Equivalent to the 1998 Chicago Bulls
“Andrew was a very special case and that this team is So excellent. I mean, it really is, you know, I think everyone's watching The Last Dads, but it really is the 98 Chicago Bulls. I mean, this is such an extraordinary team that had worked together before, eve…”
Oct 1, 2020
Boyle: Venture Capital and Journalism Hunt for the Same Three Elements
“They're the exact same job, except in journalism, you write a story, and in venture, you write a check. But you really are hunting for the same things. So the three components of a great story are strong protagonists, A contrarian hook or thesis that really ma…”
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Boyle: Institutional Transparency Breeds Mistrust and Causes Legacy Institutions to Crumble
“Sort of this transparency that we were all looking forward to over the last decade to make things just much more elucidated to us, and I think what we're seeing is that actually that transparency breeds a lot of mistrust. These institutions only have their pow…”
Oct 1, 2020 positive
Oct 1, 2020 positive
Boyle: Navigating regulatory hurdles unlocks markets dominated by slow incumbents
“And if you can get through the regulatory hurdles or the procurement hurdles and see that market on the other side, you are competing against the slowest moving incumbents because they have had an effective monopoly for decades. That's true of education. That'…”
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Oct 1, 2020 bearish
Boyle: Top Journalists Will Leave Premier News Institutions for Independent Platforms
“So I do think you can see a shift even at the top, even at the Washington Post and the New York Times, where people will opt out of those premier institutions because they value the freedom to monetize their following. And they also value the freedom to say wh…”
Oct 1, 2020 positive
Oct 1, 2020 positive
Boyle: Post-COVID trends will split between major infrastructure and communal living
“I think those are two prescriptions and two solutions that we're actually going to see coming out of COVID. We're going to see people building these intense infrastructure projects, or I hope we do, you know, sort of the Marc Andreessen, it's time to build. Bu…”
Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Boyle: Corporate and Social Pressures Mirror Soviet-Era Censorship
“And we've seen sort of that current that was really in existence under the former Soviet Union move to what we call democratic countries. But instead of that being influenced from kind of the state, it's been influenced from companies and from other people and…”
Oct 1, 2020
Boyle: Deep Tech Is Easier to Fund at Seed and Series B
“It's a lot easier to invest in seed in series B than it is to invest in A, and there's a reason for that, and that's because a lot of the companies I work with are deep tech companies, or they're engineering driven, and there is little traction at the A, so th…”
Oct 1, 2020
Boyle: Media Is Narrowing Into Private Channels Due To Social Backlash
“And so I very much believe that we've entered a time where it's very difficult to say what you believe, and that's why these narrow communities and these, you know, whether it's a Substack newsletter or whether it's a signal channel where you can talk to a sma…”
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Boyle: Founders optimize too much for valuation and brand over mission alignment
“I think people optimize too much for brand and price and sort of short-term effects, and they're not looking solely for mission-driven people who are mission-aligned with them who will have their back and have courage when things get tough.”
Oct 1, 2020 bullish
Boyle: Anduril Solved a 30-Year Government Defense Incentive Problem
“Same thing with creating new defense companies like Andrel. For 30 years, the government has not been able to figure out how do we build new technology and how do we incentivize Silicon Valley to work with us, and Andrel has figured out how to align the incent…”
Oct 1, 2020
Boyle: Every Successful Founder Will Face Intense Scrutiny Over Next Decade
“And I think the biggest thing that I'm predicting will happen in the next 10 years to founders is that if you plan on being a successful founder, you are going to have a target on your back. It doesn't matter whether you are building a defense company or wheth…”
Oct 1, 2020 bearish
Boyle: Global Trust in Legacy Institutions Is Steadily Declining
“The broader thesis that I have is that we are watching this incredible global decline of institutional trust, and it's not just media, it's the U.S. Government, it's Brexit, it's university education, the Catholic Church, it's any institution that used to hold…”
Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020 negative
Boyle: COVID exposed both how and what K-12 students learn
“I think we're seeing, and I think every person with children right now is seeing this, that like there is a Huge change happening in K through 12 education because of COVID. And the two things that I think have really changed are parents are now aware of how t…”