Klaus Hommels
19 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 27, 2024 by Klaus Hommels · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Nov 27, 2024 negative
Hommels: VCs need meaningful ownership so wins actually move the needle
“I do think that you need to have ownership in that sense that some of the crypto funds that I'm seeing, they invest many, many, many companies, very, very small sums, so it never makes a difference if you're right. So you need to make sure that it makes a diff…”
Nov 27, 2024 negative
Hommels lost 60% of his personal wealth on startup Wunderloop
“So my biggest yeah, nightmare, I wouldn't say, but at that time it was a pretty nightmare, was a company called Wunderloop, where basically I worked with a friend of mine, like three, three and a half years, just to lose 60% of my wealth.”
Nov 27, 2024
Hommels: Happiness requires pleasing both your 8-year-old and 80-year-old self
“There are two things that make me, would make me happy, and that's the final word then. I need to be proud, proud of my eight-year-old me, what I have achieved and what I've dreamt of, and proud of my eighty-year-old me. When I look back and say, how, how have…”
Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024 positive
Nov 27, 2024 positive
Hommels: Invested in early Airbnb after pitch from Guy Oseary
“In the case of Airbnb, it was a discussion I had with Guy Ozieri with the manager of Madonna, and we were chatting, and he basically was advertising it so heavily and tried to convince me, and I think at the end, I followed his logic, and luckily I made that d…”
Nov 27, 2024 positive
Hommels Secured Early Facebook Shares via Benchmark Partner Matt Kohler
“And at that time I needed to figure out how I get into it, and then I, for two months, called everybody I knew in in In the valley, and I ended up with Matt Kohler, like a little coincidence, because I was at Benchmark as a VC, and he was with Benchmark, and s…”
Nov 27, 2024
Hommels: Pause investing for three months after big wins to avoid hubris
“So I had a rule for long that when I had a, Exceptional hit. I would stop investing for three months because success makes you fear that you can walk over water and you needed to force yourself to have this humbling moments to say, oh no, no, no, no. That was …”
Nov 27, 2024
Hommels: Price sensitivity does not matter in venture capital investments
“Because the good things, I would still do them, the good companies I've invested in, even if they were 30% more expensive, and the shit, I don't want to have it, but it's worth 30% cheaper. So the beauty is, I'm not in the buyout where buying makes a differenc…”
Nov 27, 2024 neutral
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Nov 27, 2024 negative
Hommels: Top European founders match US drive, broader base is entitled
“So I think on the very top of the pyramid, it's exactly the same. You will, people fight like maniacs, and there is everything that you do in order to get somewhere, but I think the broader base under the bell curve is more complacent, more entitled,”
Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024