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Mario Schlosser

15 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 5, 2024 by Mario Schlosser · across every show →

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Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Step-down founders blow up startups by undermining new CEOs
“If you do it, you have to do it wholeheartedly. That, that what blows startups up is, is if you say, oh, I'm gonna take a different role now, and then you don't, and people still come to you when you tell them, oh, yeah, I would do this, you know, but whatever…”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 44:04 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 neutral
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Generic VC advice fails because leadership depends on individual traits
“I think the explanation is it depends. It depends on the person and the metabolism and the genetic makeup, whatever, of the people who take the advice. And I think that very thing is true for CEO-ship as well.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 33:55 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Process high-stakes bad news directly alongside team members
“That is the way to deal with bad news, to just deal with other people for whom it is equally bad, but at least you share the badness in some way.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 50:02 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Asymmetric value generation destabilizes partnerships
“If the relationship becomes too asymmetric in terms of value generation, how we want to define that in a marriage, you know, it becomes difficult as well.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 1:15:12 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 positive
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Design company structure around personal strengths, not textbooks
“I do think I have an ability of keeping more pieces of information in my mind at the same time than most others. And so design around that as opposed to just sort of reading the book, you know.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 52:57 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 negative
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mario Schlosser refuses to return to NYSE until Oscar stock recovers
“I'm, I am not going to go until the price is back at the IPO price or I pay my next company.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 23:10 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Mario Schlosser slams Silicon Valley's life-and-death rhetoric around startup struggles
“Sometimes the rhetoric and Silicon Valley of like, oh my God, life and death, whatever, is also just fucking stupid. Like none of us is, you know, gonna get shot at in the trenches of Ukraine if our stock price goes down.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 32:14 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: If a founder loses intensity, the company loses intensity
“If you let the intensity go out, I think the intensity goes out, it disappears from the company.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 1:13:01 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Founders who deny struggling after stepping down are lying
“It's difficult to not be the person with the top authority anymore. It just is. I mean, anybody who doesn't tell you that isn't fucking idiots. You know, like, if you're the guy who can tell everybody what to do, and they all have always respect for it, that's…”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 45:17 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Disclosure
Mario Schlosser: Took Sertraline to manage pressure during Oscar's stock crash
“I mean, I really thought I took a thing called sertraline. That was a unique way to do this thing.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 25:18 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Mario Schlosser cashed out $900k in Oscar Health's 2015 secondary round
“I, at that time, it wasn't a million yet, by the way. It was, but it was approaching that level, I think. So then, but yeah, it was close enough, like 900,000, something like that.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 1:02:08 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Disclosure
Mario Schlosser avoided checking Oscar's stock price during its 94% drop
“I honestly, I did not even look at the stock price. That was one way in which I dealt with it. I didn't look at it.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 28:47 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Mario Schlosser Admits Weaknesses in Delegation and Operational Management
“I'm certainly bad at some things that I think professional CEOs should be good at. I probably bad at delegation. I'm probably bad at you know, operationally managing people like saying, hey, I told you to do these three things. Did you do those three things ne…”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 33:00 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Co-founders should get their fighting done at the very beginning
“If you think he's a saint, if you think he doesn't have those things, you will awaken to it at some point. And so, you might as well get the fighting out of the way at the very beginning.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 1:14:31 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Multi-decade venture timelines strictly limit total lifetime founder bets
“Oscar took 12 years. How many more of those, how many things of that nature could I try to do and try to bite off?”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 1:08:33 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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