Kurt Rathmann
11 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 10, 2020 by Kurt Rathmann · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 10, 2020
Kurt Rathmann connected QuickBooks to a Palm Pilot via 3G in high school
“I had a company in high school, it's a landscape lighting company. And so at that Well, not a tech company. What I was trying to do is solve a real time inventory environment. So I had a garage full of inventory and I had a QuickBooks desktop computer and I wa…”
Jan 10, 2020 bearish
Rathmann: US small business market will be partnership-driven, not winner-take-all
“There's twenty-nine million small businesses just here in the U.S. I think that it's a variety of key players looking to evolve, and if anything, this is going to be a strong partnership market before it would ever be a winner-take-all market.”
Jan 10, 2020
Rathmann outlines the five core ways venture capitalists add value
“If you boil it down, I think VCs in general can do about five things for a company and varying levels and varying levels of expertise and execution. But the first would be they can write checks. The second is they can make intros to talent. The third is they c…”
Jan 10, 2020
Jan 10, 2020 positive
Jan 10, 2020
Rathmann: Separating objective data from empathy helps employees self-correct
“It's important that you show the data which you're operating off of, and then you can bring in the human empathy and, you know, relational component, and if you can Keep those separate. It does wonders for how people are, will self-correct, and they'll realize…”
Jan 10, 2020
Rathmann: Founders must actively extract value from VCs rather than expecting hand-offs
“As a founder, you have to know that all those things are available. It's really your job To extract it. I think folks get into trouble when they think that a lot of these things are these kind of marketing elements of a particular VC or particular firm are goi…”
Jan 10, 2020
Jan 10, 2020 neutral
Rathmann: Managing VCs is a competition for their time against portfolio peers
“It's my job to make sure that the board and that the investors are continually working for the company. And quite frankly, I kind of view it as a competition for their time, right? They've got other portfolio companies, and I want to make sure that they're spe…”
Jan 10, 2020
Rathmann: High-performing startup teams must operate between 80% and 130% capacity
“A great team, I have a saying and a philosophy that the great team is always throttled at between 80 to 130%. You can't run at 130% forever because you really start to break things. You can't run at 80% forever because then you become complacent and you might …”
Jan 10, 2020
Rathmann refused Zoom partner meetings with Bessemer and Coatue
“Byron would tell you, and I think Thomas from KOTU as well as, you know, as we were going through the partner meeting process, it was, you know, they're sending a zoom link over and saying, Hey, you know, just zoom in at this time. And that'll be that. And I s…”