Martin Mignot
20 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 1, 2016 by Martin Mignot · said 21 times in 9 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- 20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
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2024 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2020 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Martin Mignot, oldest first
Feb 1, 2016 positive
Mignot: FOMO is healthy and essential for venture capitalists
“I think in a way, you know, It's healthy, because that's because that's what VC is all about. That's what I think about, you know, that's what I dream about. And, you know, at night, it's like, you know, which, when I find a company that I really love, that's …”
Feb 1, 2016 positive
Mignot: Personal risk as a founder builds essential VC empathy
“I think that the most important thing is really that you get to know and see the world, you know, through the eyes of an entrepreneur being on the other side of the table. And most importantly, I think really feeling the stress of and what taking risk really m…”
Feb 1, 2016 neutral
Feb 1, 2016
Mignot: Founder evaluation should focus on hiring ability over VC rapport
“It's not really your relationship with them necessarily. It's more their relationship with their team and with the people that they are, they work with on a daily basis. You know, are they able to attract the, you know, the key talent that they need? That's ve…”
Feb 1, 2016 bullish
Mignot: Structural risk asymmetry justifies high valuations for potential rocketships
“It's like your downside is always limited to the amount you're investing while your upside is unlimited by definition. So, so in all of these cases if you think, you know, you're truly in face of a rocket ship and something that can be worth multiple billions,…”
Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 negative
Index Ventures maintains a 'life's too short' rule for unbearable entrepreneurs
“Some of us here have a rule of what we call the life's too short category, you know, so people who are, you know, entrepreneurs who are so unbearable that even if their business is fantastic, we just like, you know, life's too short to deal with it.”
Feb 1, 2016 negative
Feb 1, 2016 positive
Mignot: Early-stage VCs should never pass on startups due to high valuation
“We've seen millions of times, every time we've tried, we've walked out of something saying, oh, it's too expensive. It's great, but it's too expensive. I think you should never say that if you do early stage investing, because that, that's where, when you make…”
Aug 11, 2025
Mignot: Index Ventures passed on Zendesk early rounds before growth investment
“That was just before I started, but we did that with Zendesk, for example, where, you know, we passed on, on, on the seed and on DA especially You know, if you look at the memo and the valuation at the time, it's quite funny in retrospect, I don't remember exa…”
Aug 11, 2025
Aug 11, 2025
Mignot: Fatherhood forces investors to stop wasting time on travel and conferences
“Having kids makes you even less tolerant of wasting time, because any moment you spend on the road, at a conference, at an event that you shouldn't be on, it's time you're not spending with, you know, with the most important people in your life.”
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Mignot: Building venture-backed hyper-growth startups requires seven-day workweeks
“If you look at the most incredible companies in the past, you know, you look at Revolut, you look at Deliveroo, all of these companies, the amount of work that these founders and these early teams put in was tremendous. I mean, it was seven days a week, you kn…”
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Mignot: Multiple touchpoints in a short window signals exceptional startups
“Typically, when you have exceptional companies, one of the indicator is that you will have multiple touch points about that company over a very short amount of time. So, you will, I will see them at Sitcam, but someone will, you know, I will see an ad, or I wi…”
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Mignot: Workflow-integrated AI tools achieve significantly higher user retention
“Especially if it's inserted inside their workflow, you know, Cursor is a good example, you know, we've made a bunch of those type of investments, then in all likelihood, even if the numbers didn't show it yet, in all likelihood, the stickiness of that product …”
Aug 11, 2025 neutral
Mignot: Venture capital has institutionalized into a career rather than a calling
“I don't know if I would say Tourist VC, but I would say it's, ah, the asset class has institutionalized. You know, it's become, ah, you know, funds have become larger, there's more people in, in, in general, by and large. And so you bring people who, ah, may s…”
Aug 11, 2025
Martin Mignot: Top founders leverage VCs for targeted help, not one-stop support
“The best founders I've seen are very good at reaching out to investors and people around them on very specific topics when these people, it's leveraging the right people at the right time, being very specific about that versus going to, you know, I think that'…”
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Mignot: Seven partners generated Index Ventures' top eight fund returns
“It's a very equal partnership, and, you know, even in terms of performance, so I mentioned there's like eight companies that represent the, you know, the largest share of return, They've been there has been involvement from seven partners for these eight compa…”