Mathilde Collin
12 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2019 by Mathilde Collin · said 24 times in 11 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- 20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
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2019 15 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
- 20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- 20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- 20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
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Everything said about Mathilde Collin, oldest first
May 24, 2019 positive
Collin: Founders who send consistent investor updates make faster progress
“And I quickly noticed that the entrepreneurs who were sending the updates in the same format as At the same time of the whatever month, week or quarter were people that were making more progress than the people that would change the format all the time. Someti…”
May 24, 2019
Collin Understated Front's MRR to VCs to Guarantee Growth Later
“I always talked about the one that was the best, but also I always said that, so let's, let's say I was at 30 KMR. I would say we're at 20 KMR. So I would always give a number that's below so that, you know, if I raise it in two months and for some reason thin…”
May 24, 2019 positive
Collin Reference-Checked Sequoia's Brian Schreier With 90% of His Portfolio CEOs
“When I chose Brian, Brian is actually one of the only investors during our series B that I didn't know much before. And so I hadn't built a relationship with him. And so I knew it was very important to understand if we would work well together. So I think I to…”
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May 24, 2019 positive
Collin: Early-Stage Startups Don't Need a Grand Vision From Day One
“I actually think it doesn't matter if you don't have a grand vision from day one, because as soon as you know that you're operating in a market that could be huge, then you'll have all the time you need to figure out what will be step two, step three, and then…”
May 24, 2019 positive
Collin: Front Discloses Exact Revenue, Churn, and Expansion Metrics Weekly to Employees
“Yeah, so every week, all hands meeting, I show revenue. So, meaning every single week, they know exactly how much churn we've had, how much expansion we've had, and how much new business we've had, and we divide that by the different teams.”
May 24, 2019 negative
Collin: Founders should not switch update metrics when performance drops
“The first one is you should choose the metrics that you will track and you should not change them. Too often I've seen entrepreneurs For example, track revenue, and then maybe revenue is not going as well as expected, so all of a sudden we'll switch to DAUs be…”
May 24, 2019 positive
Collin: VCs Should Weight Founder Execution at 90% and Vision at 10%
“I think, you know, you can put a 10% weight, that's important, but 90% should be, okay, now how confident I am that the person can execute on this brand vision, because it's super easy to say, this is how big my company could be, and this is insanely hard to m…”
May 24, 2019 positive
Collin: Employee engagement stems from trust and transparency, not relentless good news
“So I think there is some misconception about engagement being created by the energy of announcing good news versus engagement created by the trust and the transparency and the context that you will give to your employees.”
May 24, 2019 positive
Collin: Founders should make specific, target-based asks to investors
“And advice number three is be very precise in the asks that you have for your investors. So for example, at the end of the day, every founder wants more customers and new hires. But if you're saying, do you know any backend engineer? And do you know any compan…”