NFX
also referred to as: nfx guild
9 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2017 by James Currier · said 44 times in 12 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (32), Iman Abuzeid (5), Pete Flint (2), James Currier (2), Kulveer Taggar (1), Jason Calacanis (1), Alexa von Tobel (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health
- 20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 8 mentions in 1 episode
2018 15 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- 20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- 20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- 20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- 20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about NFX, oldest first
Dec 13, 2017
Currier: Peer KPI transparency drives higher founder growth targets
“So by cross populating information between companies so that it's real, it's not just James telling you should have a higher benchmark. It's you seeing others have achieved that higher benchmark and they are just like you. That really helps to let people calib…”
Dec 13, 2017 positive
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 13, 2017 bullish
Dec 13, 2017 positive
Currier: Network effects drove 60% of tech value created since 1994
“We did a large study of companies that were, have been formed since 1994, 337 companies worth over a billion. And if you look at the market caps, the combined market caps of all these companies and identify, you know, which of them had network effects at their…”
Jul 9, 2018
Flint: NFX targets a 1:2 ratio for initial versus follow-on capital
“So I think the ratios that we think about are kind of roughly one dollar initial capital and two dollars for follow on capital. So that's the sort of benchmark we think about. We're pretty early on. We're like nine months in into the fund. So it's hard to see …”
Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018
Flint: Startup timing is about scaling near critical mass, not being first
“I think what's really important is it's not about whether you're Earlier or later than your competitors on an absolute basis. It's really about who can achieve the necessary scale to be a breakout leader when they're closer to this critical mass point.”
Jul 9, 2018 negative
Flint: VCs should pass on early-stage deals if genuine passion is missing
“At the early, early stages, there is so much about passion involved in really foreseeing success, and if you as an investor are not passionate about this, you're not feeling the true passion for the entrepreneurs, you're not seeing that passion in them, then I…”