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Max Motschwiller

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2018 by Max Motschwiller · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Motschwiller: Great VCs combine analytical rigor with thesis-driven art
“And so I think the marriage of both of those two is what makes a venture capitalist great.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 4:55 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Insight
Motschwiller: Operating experience can cause VCs to overestimate problem difficulty
“The flip side to that is you might understand that there's a problem that's so hard to solve, it was so hard for you to solve, that then you don't believe that This entrepreneur will solve it, and it might lead you to overestimate the difficult of that problem…”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 7:49 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Insight
Motschwiller: Capital Gluttony Causes Startups to Lose Discipline and Focus
“There is a ton of capital in the system, and access to capital is a great thing in some respects, but to use a Rob Ward term, he frames it, there's capital gluttony. When there's too much capital, it can lead to deprioritization and defocus, Because you think …”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 31:23 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Motschwiller: Career VCs face limitations advising CEOs on managing large organizations
“There are certainly elements that are missed, and I feel most disadvantaged from when an operator is going through specific challenges, and they're mostly around people, right, where I haven't managed large organizations before, and so fully understanding the …”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 8:28 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018
Insight
Motschwiller: Junior VCs Fail by Neglecting Deep Co-Investor Relationships
“Where I think people get tripped up is they don't farm the bottom of the network and make sure that they develop what we call internally as best friends.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 15:27 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Motschwiller: Early conviction helps junior VCs win competitive deals
“Entrepreneurs want people who believe in their vision and have conviction around the same belief that they have. And if you To that entrepreneur. And instead of have them convince you go to them and you are already convinced and share that with them and offer …”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 19:04 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 bearish
Opinion
Motschwiller: Consumer VC landscape in 2018 is harder with fewer upside opportunities
“Relative to other time periods, take when I joined Kleiner in 2012, this feels like a harder time to be investing in consumer and that there are fewer high quality and super high upside opportunities in consumer.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 26:11 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Motschwiller: Series A rounds for top consumer decacorns occurred pre-2012
“You look at the series A Funding times of the consumer decacorns that are out there, the Ubers, the Lyfts, the Airbnbs, the Snaps, the Pinterest, the Spotifys, those series A's were all done pre-二零 12.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 26:28 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
Jun 25, 2018 positive
Insight
Motschwiller: Executive recruitment and customer intros are VC's highest-leverage value-adds
“The two highest points of leverage that I find my entrepreneurs really love are, one, finding them great people, and that oftentimes means great Great executives as they're building out that team and scaling quickly and finding executives that can take them to…”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 19:55 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
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