Mitch Lasky
9 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2017 by Harry Stebbings · said 16 times in 9 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Citron (4), Harry Stebbings (4), Torsten Reil (2), Sarah Tavel (1), Jeff Fagnan (1), Everett Randle (1), Clinton Foy (1), Anjney Midha (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2019 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- 20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Mitch Lasky, oldest first
May 1, 2017 bearish
Stebbings: VR is an isolating experience that detracts from social togetherness
“I joined Mitch Lasky at Benchmarks of the World in being very anti-VR. It's some of the very best innovations of the last decade have been those that fundamentally bring people together. And VR for me is an isolated experience that detracts from a feeling of s…”
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Lasky: Small partnership model is essential for effective VC decision-making
“I think there's a sort of small is beautiful approach that really works. You know, we can have one conversation. There's an enormous amount of mutual respect and admiration, and so, you know, it allows, I think, for good decision-making. There's a lot of trust…”
Jul 10, 2017 negative
Jul 10, 2017 neutral
Lasky: Benchmark partners will retire within the next decade
“Well, I think we have an opportunity as the current group of partners comes to the, in the next decade or so, comes to the end of their careers to really reinvigorate the firm with youth, and I think an increasing awareness of diversity.”
Jul 10, 2017 bearish
Lasky avoids VR application startups due to long market trough
“So I've stayed away from investing in, in the application space, primarily because the development teams are really expensive and you'd have to kind of keep them funded through what could be a fairly long trough, maybe three, you know, three to five years.”
Jul 10, 2017 bearish
Lasky is short Magic Leap, favoring cell phones for AR
“I would say I'm quite short the approach of the magic leaps of the world that sort of require a visor and maybe for an industrial application, but are you really going to walk around the city looking like you're doing Star Trek cosplay, you know, just so that …”
Jul 10, 2017 bearish
Sep 24, 2018 neutral
Reaching profitability requires daily discipline and tight prioritization of key tasks
“And getting to profitability takes an incredible amount of discipline. My partner, Mitch Lasky, he describes it as his daily act of will, where, you know, every day it's making the decision to do three things instead of the 10, and that is a muscle that you ha…”