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Kevin Ryan

21 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2024 by Kevin Ryan · across every show →

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Apr 10, 2024 negative
Insight
Ryan: Companies cannot easily go public merely by taking price cuts
“That is wrong. If your company's growing at 60% and profitable, yes, you can always go public. But at the margin, it is not easy to take companies public. There's not a lot of appetite.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 55:07 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Kevin Ryan refused early acquisition offers for MongoDB targeting $10B-$20B valuation
“We were never open to selling Mongo, no matter what, because we really thought we were building a 10 or twenty billion dollar company, and so we had confidence.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 44:57 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Disclosure
Kevin Ryan Sold Business Insider for $450M on $40M in Revenue
“I sold Business Insider not because I wanted to, because we were doing forty million in revenue, and someone offered me four hundred and fifty million dollars for a media company, and so I said, yes.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 45:09 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 bearish
Insight
Stalled $50M Revenue Startups Are Worth $200M, Not 10x Revenue
“So one, if they've plateaued their growth, they're not worth 500. You know, they're not at all. I mean, 10 times revenue for a company that's not growing that much is, is not going to fly in today's market. That company's worth, you know, maybe 200 if they're …”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 55:59 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kevin Ryan's DoubleClick Paper Wealth Dropped From $100M to $10M
“In 2000, I had probably a hundred million dollars worth of double tick stock on paper, which ended up being ten million.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 47:34 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Disclosure
Kevin Ryan acquired Meetup from WeWork for $10M during early COVID
“Three years ago, I bought the company Meetup for ten million, because WeWork was getting rid of it, and had panicked, and COVID had just started.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 45:31 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2029
Kevin Ryan: Newly Raised VC Funds Will Shrink in Size
“So you'll see new funds being smaller, but that takes time to work through the system.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 54:10 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2029
Kevin Ryan: VCs will deploy existing dry powder over five years
“There's another characteristic in our business is there's actually a lot of VC money. You know, there's tons of cash sitting on the sidelines. That money is not going to be given back. That money is going to be spent. We're only debating whether people are goi…”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 11:21 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 positive
Disclosure
AlleyCorp raises $250 million in its first outside venture fund
“We've been investing really my money in a different structure for the last decade, and, you know, we have a 120 companies in the portfolio have made many investments, started over 20 companies, but we just announced that we, it's the first outside fund with ou…”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 31:15 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kevin Ryan: Every portfolio company quadrupling revenue successfully gets funded
“I don't have any companies going out that have quadrupled their revenues in the last year that don't get funded.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 16:24 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Disclosure
Kevin Ryan was the first investor in Argentine neobank Ualá
“I was the first investor in Walla, which is a mobile bank in Argentina.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 2:29 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
30% of VCs Reject Pitch Decks Unseen Due to Prior Sector Losses
“I see it all the time when we have a company going out and we approach 10 VCs and three of them will say, I invested in this sector eight years ago and I lost all my money. They haven't even read the deck yet”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 15:39 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Kevin Ryan: VC Funds Hold 4x More Capital Than in 2017
“Look, the reason one should be concerned about venture today Is that there are, there's probably four times as much money in funds today as there was in 2017.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 53:08 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2034
Kevin Ryan: Psychedelic industry will be 20x larger in 10 years
“We're big investors, for example, in the psychedelic industry. Is the psychedelic industry gonna be 20 times larger 10 years from now than today? Absolutely.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 13:16 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kevin Ryan's Gilt Groupe Paper Stake Fell From $165M to $10M
“We were a year and a half, a year away from going public at Gilt, where Goldman Sachs said, Kevin, you've got about one hundred and sixty five million dollars. We're feeling really good about this. And that ended up being ten million.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 47:50 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Meetup Pivoted From $20M Loss to $6M Profit After WeWork Buyout
“We also went from a 130 people the day I bought it to 90 people a week later, which is the right amount. Today it has probably 80, or when we sold it had 82 people, and it went from a twenty million dollar loss on thirty-two million in revenue, the, when we wo…”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 46:49 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Disclosure
Investors rejected MongoDB initially over founders' adtech background
“And actually, when we started Mongo, the reason we had trouble raising money, even though we had already had a very successful company, was because people said, you've never done a database before. You have, you, three of you have ad tech backgrounds. It's not…”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 19:19 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Insight
Kevin Ryan: Billion-dollar founders consistently display prior track records of success
“Is a surfer for five years, and then at 26, all of a sudden launches a billion dollar company. That doesn't happen as much. They showed drive and focus and success before.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 2:59 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2044
Kevin Ryan: AlleyCorp Will Not Try to Become a $2B Fund
“The business we're in does not scale infinitely. We're not trying to accumulate assets, so I don't want to be a two billion dollar fund.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 1:08:58 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024
Disclosure
Kevin Ryan sold all eligible DoubleClick shares in 2000
“I did sell all the shares I could at DoubleClick in 2000.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 48:13 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Kevin Ryan Sold Meetup for 7x to 8x His $10M Purchase Price
“And, you know, I just sold it was announced in January. So, sold it for seven or eight times that amount.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 45:41 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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