Max Gazor
9 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2017 by Max Gazor · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Aug 2, 2017 positive
Max Gazor notes independent board seats are rarely turned down
“Generally in the Valley, you'll find independent board seat is a very rare thing, and it's a very prized thing. So you know, if you offer it to someone, very rarely will they want to turn it down or decide it's not a good thing for them.”
Aug 2, 2017 negative
Aug 2, 2017 positive
Max Gazor notes corporate acquirers heavily prioritize co-located startup teams
“Geography is important, making sure that folks are kind of in the same room to the extent possible and, you know, working well and collaboratively. Those are the types of important things that buyers look for, and it's really not emphasized enough, I would say…”
Aug 2, 2017 bullish
Max Gazor prefers frugal founders over those raising lavish seed rounds
“So I prefer companies and founders that manage to keep burn low, to be resourceful, to kind of live a frugal and efficient lifestyle versus those that raise lots and lots of money in the seed round and kind of Live a little bit richer.”
Aug 2, 2017 bullish
Max Gazor predicts 2017 AI will mirror 2007 cloud computing boom
“I think that we are in a time With AI today, where cloud was about 10 years ago, and we're going to see a tsunami of innovation associated with companies and entrepreneurs thinking about ways to apply AI towards more traditional software products.”
Aug 2, 2017 bullish
Max Gazor invested in Airtable when the company had three employees
“I invested in Airtable when it was three people and really going back to the conviction and how we build conviction. Yeah, I met Howie, I met the team and I just fell in love with them and immediately and knew that they're going to build a very, very big compa…”
Aug 2, 2017 bullish
CRV's early Airtable investment thesis was the unbundling of Microsoft Excel
“The investment thesis that we got excited about was this concept of the unbundling of Excel, and we felt like Airtable could become the all-in-one collaboration platform that could kind of redefine how consumers think about productivity software.”
Aug 2, 2017 positive