Michael Eisenberg
47 statements across 6 episodes · 14 bullish · 12 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2021 by Michael Eisenberg · said 24 times in 9 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (23), Omer Shai (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- 20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
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Feb 8, 2021 positive
Benchmark partners all invested in Michael Eisenberg's Aleph at launch
“My agreement when Benchmark, as Peter Fenton has so famously said, decided to get out of the imperial era of venture capital and focus locally, the partners at Benchmark were super supportive and went out on my own, so to speak, found a partner, Eden Shohat, a…”
Feb 8, 2021 positive
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021
Overcapitalizing lean founders causes them to explode, says Michael Eisenberg
“When you overstuff founders who are better at lean with capital, they explode. And conversely, if you've got guys who can press on the gas and play the game on the field when everyone's got capital, you ought to load them up.”
Feb 8, 2021 neutral
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021
Domain specialization blinds venture investors to disruptive insights, argues Eisenberg
“When we think we're specialists, we think we know a lot about something. If you think you know a lot about something, you have really expert questions, so to speak, to ask a lot of the founders. But my guess is if you were that knowledgeable in And specialized…”
Feb 8, 2021 negative
Feb 8, 2021 positive
Feb 8, 2021 bullish
Tech companies have become long-duration assets like bonds, argues Eisenberg
“But the second thing is technology has become a long duration asset, which it never was before. So you used to think of bonds as long duration assets or Refrigerators is long duration assets. Houses. But now people look at Amazon and go, whoa, 30 years plus so…”
Feb 8, 2021 positive
Feb 8, 2021
Dec 6, 2021 bearish
Dec 6, 2021 neutral
Eisenberg: Market bust will reallocate tech talent but won't reduce salaries
“A bust in the past and maybe now would reallocate some of that talent around. I actually don't think it would reduce the cost of it for what it's worth, given how scarce the talent is, but I think it could reallocate it to better places.”
Dec 6, 2021 negative
Eisenberg: Selling VC Secondary Shares Without the Founder Harms Reputation
“Founders talk to each other, and unless it's really obvious you're taking money off with the founder, and it's probably a small amount if you're a large stakeholder, I think that's reputation negative over the long term and not consistent with playing the long…”
Dec 6, 2021
Dec 6, 2021
Feb 23, 2022 neutral
Michael Eisenberg: Founders take significantly more capital via secondary sales today
“One of these is different between now and 20 plus years ago in particular is there's a lot more secondary going on, which means that founders are taking capital off the table in a lot of these rounds. And it's hard to know how they react. You know, if the goin…”
Feb 23, 2022 negative
Michael Eisenberg: Massive funds like Tiger Global overwhelm down-market cap tables
“What we often don't pay attention to is if you've got the largest war chest at the table, you've got a shot to overwhelm the cap table in a down market. Meaning, if I'm Tiger and, you know, I'm taking a large round from Tiger at a company, then the company nee…”
Aug 12, 2022
Aug 12, 2022 bullish
Oct 12, 2023
Oct 12, 2023
Eisenberg: Israeli couple held wedding on Gaza border during reserve mobilization
“There was a couple that was meant to get married yesterday, and the future husband, the fiance was called to reserve duty on the Gaza border. They decided not to cancel the wedding. The wedding was held on the Gaza border.”
Oct 12, 2023
Michael Eisenberg lost his cousin in the October 7th attack in Kfar Aza
“Unfortunately, as you know, Harry, I lost a cousin of mine in battle on the first day when he went in to protect the town called Kfar Aza which is a border town where tens of people were massacred, and he was literally the first, ah, jeep in, and he was unfort…”
Oct 12, 2023 negative
Oct 12, 2023 negative
Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Eisenberg Predicts Venture Investment In Israel Will Surge Due To Resilience
“If you ask me what comes next in the next chapter of the State of Israel, I think I do know, and the Israeli tech community, and that is much more investment is going to flow here because people want to invest in resilient societies in the 21st century, as it'…”
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Oct 12, 2023 negative
Eisenberg: Attackers Of Human Values Must Be Eradicated For Progress
“It's a human aspiration, except there are some barbarians that don't believe in this. And they need to be eradicated. And that's our job right now. And our job of our children is to go eradicate them so that we can have more weddings, more children, more grand…”
Oct 12, 2023
Eisenberg: Over 100 Americans, Europeans, and Israelis are held hostage by Hamas
“If I could just jump in, Harry, also, it's important to know that there's well over a hundred Americans, Europeans, and Israelis in Hamas captivity. They were kidnapped from the music festival, and they're still being held hostage by ISIS, Hamas.”
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Aleph Closes Investment Despite CEO And 25% Of Staff In Reserves
“There's an investment that I've been working on for a long time. The closing's tomorrow, and we bet we're going to issue a capital call. The CEO is in reserves. He's one of the first people called up. And I called him up, and I called his two co-founders. I sp…”
Jun 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 negative
Eisenberg: Israeli founders struggle to scale because of small domestic market
“People think Israelis know how to scale things, and for the most part, when you grow up in a small country, it's harder to think of scale, and so when you're a foreign investor, you need to help Israelis think in big scale.”
Jun 19, 2024 bullish
Eisenberg: Synthetic biology is shifting to a low-cost 'labless' model
“ZERP built out a huge amount of biological infrastructure. And so now you can just rent labs for cheap. And so I think we're moving to a labless model where you do kind of AI, you know, in your office, and then send out things for testing to labs and maybe eve…”
Jun 19, 2024
Michael Eisenberg: Board meetings should take 45 minutes, never four hours
“I've come to the conclusion that with good preparation, most board meetings can be finished in 45 minutes. There's real governance that needs to go on there. There's core strategic issues that you need to kind of pound on. But most of them can be finished in 4…”
Jun 19, 2024 bearish
Jun 19, 2024 negative
Eisenberg: Secondary market buyers claiming interest are mostly fishing for startup data
“Over the last three or four weeks, we've decided to do a little experiment. We reach out to them now. We used to ignore them. But now it's interesting because, like, you discover there are actual buyers there. There aren't, ok? There are not actual buyers ther…”
Jun 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 negative
Jun 19, 2024 bearish
Jun 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 bullish
Jun 19, 2024 positive
Jun 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024
Michael Eisenberg: Board prep should use written letters, not slide decks
“It's generally a letter and not a presentation. It's rich in data, but it up front identifies these are my core one, two, or three strategic issues that I gotta get board input on. And, ah, you prep for it, you do calls beforehand, and then the conversation is…”