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Larry Aschebrook

14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2025 by Larry Aschebrook · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jun 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
G Squared acquired early secondary shares at 35 cents on the dollar
“In early vintages, we got like 35 cents on the dollar by being a secondary direct buyer over primary buyers because there was no other secondary buyers.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 15:54 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025
Disclosure
G Squared raised $1.4B and rejected $700M in 2021
“We raised a 1,000,000,004 and then turned down another seven hundred million. In very short period of time.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 9:13 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
G Squared outsourced early investment committee memos to analysts in India
“My early investment committee memos and the early vintages were outsourced to, you know, a group of really smart analysts in India, that you could pay a fraction of what you could pay talent in the US.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 10:42 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025
Insight
Growth investors should focus on absolute dollar prices and DPI, not dilution
“I don't give a shit about the dilution. I care about the price I pay. In dollars. And the price I'm going to sell it at, in dollars. I am focused on DPI, not MOIC. I don't care about the dilution.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:24:54 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025
Disclosure
G Squared concentrates 80% to 90% of its risk in 10 companies
“And still to this day, which some people are not comfortable with, 80, hopefully 90% of our risk are in 10 companies.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 13:15 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025
Disclosure
Aschebrook personally paid millions to settle a Theranos secondary deal dispute
“And then actually I don't think it was formally sued. It was threatened to be sued. And I agreed to settle it out of court and gave him a couple million dollars to go away.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 56:38 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025
Insight
Fund managers should close capital immediately to build portfolio momentum
“So with my mentality still to this day, raising 1,000,000,002 billion dollar funds is the money's there. You close. Start deploying it. Build a portfolio. Show some improvement in NAV. It is inertia that makes it easier.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 8:23 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Insight
VCs should dollar-cost average out of positions post-IPO
“Dollar cost average out just like your dollar cost average in and just start getting liquidity when you can privately and continuing it through when they list.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:01:39 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Insight
Secondary shares and aggressive cost cuts can yield 5x in 3 years
“No, and then, by the way, layer some secondary on, lower the cost basis, and you have, you can make a five X in three years.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:29:35 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Fanatics generates billions in revenue and hundreds of millions in EBITDA
“I mean, the business is fantastic, and it's at scale, massive scale, billions of dollars of revenue, and hundreds of millions of dollars of EBITDA, like a massive company.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:22:24 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 bearish
Insight
Hundreds of legacy private tech companies are 'zombies' doomed by AI
“You have incumbents that are large. We call them, there's two types of companies that were, that are big and private that aren't in AI. They're kind of, we talk internally, we call them vampires and zombies. Because they're massive. Many of them are profitable…”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:28:34 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kleiner Perkins sold G Squared terrible early cleantech deals
“And there were some dogs in there, some cleantech shit that Kleiner Perkins sold me that was just a flaming bag of turds on your front porch.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 14:05 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Aschebrook began investing by buying stock from Jack Ma's family office
“I just started buying Twitter shares and Alibaba stock from Jack Ma's family office, and then holy shit, it worked.”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 4:35 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 16, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aschebrook's 2010 one-page stock purchase agreement is still used today
“And still to this day, 15 years later, there's a form that I created at the Cary School of Business at Arizona State. One page form that then we sent to the company to buy stock. And it still floats around. I got it back from a broker not that long ago, and it…”
Larry Aschebrook Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 2:50 Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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