Lowercase Capital

18 statements across 8 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 27, 2016 by Harry Stebbings · said 50 times in 20 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Everything said about Lowercase Capital, oldest first

Jan 27, 2016 positive
Assertion Supported
Lowercase Capital's first fund is the most successful venture fund ever
“I think he's got the most successful fund ever with Lowercase's first fund.”
Harry Stebbings Jan 27, 2016 ▶ 4:38 20VC: Lessons From Working with Chris Sacca, The Rise Of Mobile Commerce and Improving Push Notifications with Ellie Wheeler, Partner @ Greycroft Partners
Mar 14, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Mazzeo: Lowercase Capital evaluates pro-rata follow-ons as brand new deals
“Mob Crush, live streaming, mobile games. We did the seed there, but we followed on into another round of funding. We treat all of those following and pro rata opportunities. As a, as separate investments in, in terms of our thinking of whether to do them or no…”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 33:35 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 bearish
Insight
Mazzeo: Cheap capital has muddled follow-on funding as a startup success signal
“Follow on funding is something that today because of the fundraising environment and cheap and cheap access to capital, You're seeing perhaps a little too much exuberance in terms of like the fall on financing. So that, that signal has gotten a little bit mudd…”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 19:59 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Mazzeo: Lowercase launched text-based beta testing platform Lowercase Alpha
“The product called lowercase apple, which is just a text message group that anybody can subscribe to, and get products every week or two. That are still in early test flight mode that are generally alphas or betas of products.”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 26:12 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mazzeo: Lowercase's best deal flow comes from portfolio and passed founders
“That's where we see most of our high profile, our most successful deal flow comes from the existing portfolio and entrepreneurs that even entrepreneurs that we pass on that that send us deals.”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 21:24 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 positive
Insight
Mazzeo: Product Hunt Is a Critical Ecosystem for Seed VC
“Product Hunt is a community I've been a huge supporter of, like you, and sort of it's a, it's an ecosystem that I love, and it turned out to be a really important one for early stage venture, because that's where you find a bunch of really interesting companie…”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 15:11 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016
Assertion Supported
Matt Mazzeo manages over 40 investments at Lowercase Capital
“At Lowercase, Matt manages a portfolio of over 40 investments.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 0:35 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 negative
Opinion
Mazzeo: Venture Capital Firms Can No Longer Rely Solely On Sand Hill Road
“I don't think the VC of today can hang behind a Sand Hill Road address anymore, and pretend like that brand will become, or maintain its supremacy In this ecosystem.”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 9:44 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mazzeo: Chris Sacca walked away from tens of millions over 'icky' deals
“Watched him walk away from tens of millions of dollars repeatedly because he didn't feel right about, and it felt icky to him in that investment. Actually, that's the only, like, that's the only red flag no black ball that we have is if an investment makes us …”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 32:14 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Mar 14, 2016 positive
Prediction Partly held up
Mazzeo: Lowercase will build software to source portfolio beta testers
“What you're going to see us try to do over the next few years is build out scalable versions of that, that help, help portfolio companies from like, how do we get a first few thousand beta testers on our platform playing with a product prior to release?”
Matt Mazzeo Mar 14, 2016 ▶ 25:38 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
Oct 29, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Chris Sacca hosted three-day founder deep-dive offsites at his Truckee home
“Chris Saka Had his famous offsite over in Truckee, north of San Francisco, in ski country, where he would sequester these entrepreneurs for like three days, living in his home, and all they would do was these deep dives.”
Ron Bouganim Oct 29, 2018 ▶ 34:01 20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
Jan 27, 2020 positive
Opinion
Stanton: Lowercase Capital Is One of the Top-Performing Funds Ever
“Lowercase Capital became one of the, if not the top-performing fund of all time”
Katie Stanton Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 6:11 20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
Oct 11, 2021
Disclosure
Lowercase Capital managed $6 billion with just three employees
“I think we're six people now managing, you know, between the outside money and inside money over a billion dollars. At the height of lowercase, we were managing six billion dollars and we were three people.”
Chris Sacca Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 34:55 20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
Oct 11, 2021
Disclosure
Sacca stepped away from VC because he feared becoming a 'B-teamer'
“That's one of the reasons I quit for a while. Was I worried that, you know, the stage of life I was in, I wasn't going to be able to fucking bring it. I wasn't going to be able to as obsessive as you need to be to succeed in this business and this industry and…”
Chris Sacca Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 37:26 20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
Jan 20, 2022
Assertion Supported
Lowercase Capital managed $6 billion in assets with only three employees
“At the height of lowercase, we were managing six billion dollars, and we were three people.”
Chris Sacca Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 36:13 Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 29, 2023 positive
Insight
Besvinick: Reputation is the only asset investors 100% control
“Reputation is the number one currency as an investor that you have control over. The other one obviously is your track record, but you and I both know that To a certain extent that's out of the investor's control. You know, we can hopefully select great founde…”
Adam Besvinick May 29, 2023 ▶ 1:37 Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 29, 2023
Assertion Supported
Besvinick broke into VC by persistently cold-emailing Chris Sacca at Lowercase
“Ended up working for Chris Saka and lowercase capital while I was in business school off of a cold email to Chris and then diligently annoying and following up with him until he caved and gave me some work to do basically.”
Adam Besvinick May 29, 2023 ▶ 0:54 Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Pishevar turned $25,000 into $4 million investing in Lowercase Capital
“I would say it would be lowercase Chris Saka's fund. I put, you know, a little check in there and got four million out like, 25,000 turned into four million, so it was a legendary fund. I think it was like ten million and returned like 1.5000000000 or somethin…”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:13:03 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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