Mark Goldberg
27 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 8 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2019 by Wasim Daher · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Aug 2, 2019
Mar 2, 2020 negative
Mar 2, 2020 positive
Goldberg: Founders should meet VC associates if they can lead rounds
“I strongly disagree with the notion that it's a waste of time for a founder to meet with a non-partner, though I do think the important question to ask an investor is, are you someone who can lead a round? So irrespective of title, and titles have become so me…”
Mar 2, 2020 bearish
Goldberg: Founder-led late-stage financing rounds like Front's Series C are aberrations
“At the same time, I think that's a bit of an aberration and many companies will decide to continue working with institutional leads where they get just a little bit more than you could handle from a single individual.”
Mar 2, 2020
Goldberg: Enterprise software startups can raise a Series A without $1M ARR
“The advice that I hear is for enterprise software founders, you need to get to one million dollars in ARR to raise a Series A. I think an enterprise software company that has a great product is going to have no Capital before certain financial milestones.”
Mar 2, 2020
Goldberg: New board members lose authority by speaking on every topic
“I think the most important thing you can do as an early board member is listen. And I think one of the mistakes that people make is they feel like they need to have a strong voice in every topic and every meeting. And I think you, in a lot of ways, lose the po…”
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Goldberg: Legacy VC brands drive follow-on funding, not customer growth
“I don't think it helps with customers. I think it helps with funding. You know, when Sequoia does a deal, there's going to be money that follows it. And that's great. That's a feature of, The brand equity they've built over a long period of time.”
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Goldberg: LP diversity should focus on independent thinking over institution types
“One of the best piece of advice we got was build a diverse set of LPs and not in terms of the institutions you just described Fund to fund family office you know endowments and foundations, but people that, you know, think differently and think independently.”
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Goldberg: Distracted incumbent VCs create opportunity for boutique funds
“Our view with chemistry is that the idea of having a small team, clean slates, this playing offense at a moment where many people are distracted is a really interesting idea for founders that want that, that kind of relationship.”
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Goldberg: Capital markets will innovate new secondary liquidity products
“First off, I think products will evolve to create liquidity for those late stage private companies that give liquidity options to early stage investors. So I think the market will evolve. So just because companies are staying private longer, doesn't mean I thi…”
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Goldberg: First-time founders' hunger outweighs serial founders' experience
“First time founders. I think the ability to think from a clean slate to do foolish, potentially foolish, but on the other side, potentially visionary and transformative things, the hunger and the naivety that you described and a first time founder, I think out…”
Oct 25, 2024
Goldberg: Investors should pay up for category winners over #2 or #3 players
“Yeah, so I think one of the lessons I learned from Index Ventures, and certainly two of my mentors, Mike Volpe, Ilya Fushman, was you want to be in the category winner, and when you need to pay up to be in a category winner, that's something that I think a lot…”
Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Goldberg: Andreessen Horowitz's platform model has become a crutch for VCs
“If you go back to the innovation from 1015 years ago, when Andreessen Horowitz started, it was a great idea. It was this sense of, you know, excitement and innovation for venture. But I think where we are now is it's become more of a crutch to these organizati…”
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Goldberg: LPs advised Chemistry to accept low-ownership brand deals
“We had some LPs say exactly the same advice, which was one of our more surprising moments from our fundraise where some of the LP said, you know, listen, it's that important that you're in some of these brand deals to be able to establish yourselves and don't …”
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Oct 25, 2024
Goldberg: Milestone-focused pricing shifts valuation talks away from founder ego
“I think it at least changes the tone of the conversation from one of, this is a zero sum game where the valuation is a reflection of my self-worth and kind of a scoreboard win to one of, let's put this in the perspective of a long-term journey.”
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Goldberg: Large multinational VC funds suffer from heavy administrative tax
“When you're running, I think when you're running an organization that is That is hundreds of people, that is multinational, like many of the large funds are today. I think there's a lot of time spent on people management, on administrative work, and that, that…”
Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024 neutral
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Goldberg: Multi-stage VC optionality dilutes focus and conviction
“Because it focuses you in a way that I had not done before where the date, the danger of the optionality of being able to do every stage at every time is you have to keep so many doors open. There is something that, that focuses the mind by saying, this is the…”