Mike Lazerow

“Can we get fifty million? Which is, you know, the largest deal that we've done.”

“Figure out how much you need to execute your plan, and then raise two times that number, one and a half times that number. It almost always takes more money and more time than you think.”

“We are a firm that is unanimous. They're four partners, and so it's a family firm, Cass and me, John, Jim Petroni, and Matthew, Jim Petroni. We're all in with deals that we like. I have to first convince myself that I like the deal. Cass has to convince hersel…”

“Your gut reaction is usually right about people. And so that's The first gut reaction that you have is so critical. The problem is the next two weeks, you try to talk yourself out of that gut reaction.”

“So, my biggest misses were really as a personal investor, you know, sitting in a hotel room in 2011 with Kevin Systrom and Travis from Uber and, you know, having the opportunity, but not raising my hand and saying like, hey, I'd love to invest, right?”

“Salesforce is an incredible company. I was working, you know, probably harder at Salesforce than I was at Buddy Media, and I was working really hard at Buddy Media.”

“The only way a company goes out of business is they raise money. Show me a failed product and twenty million in the bank. They still have a shot. Show me a successful product that can't raise money and you know, it'll go out of business.”