Logan Bartlett

20 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2016 by Logan Bartlett · said 13 times in 5 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Apr 20, 2016 negative
Opinion
Bartlett: Celebrity VCs prioritize personal brand over actual investing
“For the first time, it seems like there is more celebrity there are celebrity VCs to some extent, where the personality is first and foremost, and then the investment is secondary to that.”
Logan Bartlett Apr 20, 2016 ▶ 6:39 20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
Apr 20, 2016
Insight
Bartlett: The 'ones' framework for evaluating B2B startup growth stages
“I sort of think about it as the ones of stages, and so there's the one million in ARR standpoint, there's the one million that you're adding a quarter, and then there's the one million that you're adding a month, and so those are three different points in time…”
Logan Bartlett Apr 20, 2016 ▶ 13:32 20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
Apr 20, 2016
Insight
Bartlett: VC branding is a tool for founder self-selection
“I sort of view the branding aspect of it as a means to have people kind of self-select into the right person to work with and the right partner that they want to have for their business. But it's not a means to an end in and of itself.”
Logan Bartlett Apr 20, 2016 ▶ 7:09 20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
Apr 20, 2016 bullish
Prediction Held up
Bartlett predicts the tech IPO drought will end by late 2016
“I'm optimistic over the course of the next six months or so this drought that we've had over the last quarter in companies going public. I think we're going to see that short itself up,”
Logan Bartlett Apr 20, 2016 ▶ 20:03 20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
Apr 20, 2016
Insight
Bartlett: Market compression is funding startups that were previously unfundable
“At the end of the day, that kind of creates two different areas that are compressing into a single one. And so it does lead to a lot more funding of companies that maybe four or five years ago wouldn't have gotten funding.”
Logan Bartlett Apr 20, 2016 ▶ 18:19 20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
Aug 30, 2022 positive
Insight
A disciplined valuation process matters more than the markdowns themselves
“Just having a disciplined structure of how you're doing it, I think is more important than actually taking down the marks themselves.”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 27:22 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Logan Bartlett has had zero portfolio bankruptcies in eight years of investing
“I haven't yet. Now we've been in a eight year bull run since I've been investing.”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 56:07 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Redpoint's growth framework targets 3x-5x returns with 10x upside
“Our simple underwriting framework for growth at Redpoint is three to five X with 10 X plus upside, right?”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 28:12 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Logan Bartlett has no regrets on investments made during 2021 market peak
“While I wish that I invested at today's prices last year, there isn't a single investment that I wish I had back, right?”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 28:59 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 negative
Opinion
Legacy VCs retired rather than adjust to higher market competition
“A lot of very famous investors retire, and I don't blame them at all because the game on the field has definitely changed and it's far more competitive than it was in their day. And you're chasing around people trying to earn the opportunity to invest. And whe…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 17:33 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Redpoint partners must build distinct individual brands to stand out
“I think it means that each individual at red point has to stand for something and be known in some way, shape, or form for what it is that they do to help rise above the noise.”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 19:55 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 negative
Opinion
VCs maintaining unadjusted peak valuations are delusional and lose LP trust
“It is some level of delusion. If you actually believe That all of these companies are worth what they were worth six months ago, then and you're saying that with a straight face to your limited partners, and I think you're losing trust, right? A hundred percen…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 26:05 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Redpoint rejected Logan Bartlett as an associate before hiring him as partner
“Battery gave me an offer. Redpoint did not. I went over to Battery. I was there for six years and the Redpoint folks kind of stay on, stayed on top of me and they wanted to correct the error of their ways and not making me an offer when I was associate. And so…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 2:12 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 positive
Insight
VCs should invest in market inevitabilities even if slightly early
“If something just feels like an inevitability and you might be a little early on the tacker on the market, we're talking months or maybe years, not decades, then it's worth just getting on board. If you think the company is going to be the one to execute on it…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 36:49 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022
Disclosure
Logan Bartlett initially expected Braze to be acquired for $300M-$400M
“At the time I was convinced that the most likely outcome was that it was going to be a 300 or four hundred million dollar acquisition by sales or Adobe or someone like that. And so I felt like I had to be really disciplined on the entry price because it just s…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 32:33 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 positive
Opinion
Logan Bartlett names Benchmark's Eric Vishria as an A++ board member
“The one that I've internalized the most from and that I just have infinite amounts of respect for is Eric Vishria from Benchmark. Eric and I worked together on the Amplitude board, and now we have a new company Acuity MD together. And Eric is just, A++ as a bo…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 44:20 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022
Insight
Ousting a CEO via board vote signals failed venture capital governance
“If ever you're going to the votes and using your role as a board member to oust the CEO, something else is broken down along the way in the journey and the relationship you built with the founder and the rest of the board.”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 40:39 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 negative
Insight
VCs should not haggle over $10 million valuation differences to win deals
“Well, it's definitely informed my, if you wanna be in the company within the margin, just find a way to get into it and don't get too hung up on the ten million here, ten million there.”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 32:52 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022
Insight
VCs can effectively handle at most eight to ten board seats
“I think that the way that I want to be able to do it, I think it's probably eight to 10 is what the people I've admired have been able to scale up to something like that and still be active and pragmatic about their relationships with the people they work with…”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 42:27 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Every venture capitalist lost price sensitivity during the 2021 market peak
“Anyone that invested last year lost some level of price sensitivity.”
Logan Bartlett Aug 30, 2022 ▶ 27:49 Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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