Nico Laqua

17 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2026 by Nico Laqua · across every show →

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May 30, 2026 positive
Opinion
Laqua prefers measuring lifespan in victories rather than years
“I think I would rather like measure my lifespan and victories than years.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 14:56 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Opinion
Nico Laqua: Boards Cannot Prevent Unethical Executives From Committing Fraud
“If management is like unethical or unscrupulous enough to scam people or do illegal stuff, then they're going to do it anyways, probably with or without a board and that's a management problem.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 48:56 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026
Insight
Laqua: Founders learn more from studying victories than analyzing mistakes
“Yeah, I think if you dwell on mistakes, then you're, like, I look more at the victories than, Then the losses, because I think there's more to learn from the victories. And if you can kind of emulate the things that have worked really well again and again.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 27:14 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Opinion
Laqua: Angel investing is a distraction for startup founders
“I don't angel invest. Why? I think it's a distraction. Yeah. I don't think it's like, Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't feel like it's is, is core to like winning, you know.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 23:55 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Corgi employs plenty of parents despite its intense work culture
“We have plenty of parents that work at Corgi, so life's about trade-offs and sacrifices.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 30:06 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Laqua: Extracting knowledge from older generations into AI is a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity
“There's trillions of dollars to make getting that knowledge out and putting it inside of inside of computers that can think and talk.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 47:48 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laqua sleeps an average of three to four hours per night
“I don't sleep a lot. I think the average night, probably three to four hours.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 0:05 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Laqua admits he previously undervalued experienced, older workers
“You know, I think I've grown to value experience a lot more. In, in, in the past you know, I've probably made certain statements around you know, boomers being slow and bad or, you know, like, I, I've definitely you know, probably undervalued people that have …”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 46:59 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 positive
Opinion
Laqua: Low cash compensation is generally good for startups
“I think low cash comp is something good generally speaking.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 33:04 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Opinion
Laqua: Attending university was a big mistake
“I think going to university, going to college, that was a big mistake.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 3:36 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Laqua has never sold secondary equity in Corgi Insurance
“No, I've, I haven't sold any second. People are always trying to buy them, but I've yet to sell a single secondary.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 24:09 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Opinion
Laqua: Committee-based decision-making in business is nonsense
“Like every committee decision I think is like BS. Like sometimes you need to be able to take an unpopular stance and you just need to be able to plant your flag in the ground.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 48:38 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026
What-if
Laqua: High-ambition founders would have been military generals 200 years ago
“If we were alive you know, 200 years ago, we'd probably be generals, like fighting some sort of wars or something.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 12:12 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Opinion
Laqua: Young men lack societal support before gaining credibility
“I think when you're a young person, particularly, I think young men, you know, don't have that much support within society. And I think it's something, of course, that like weighs on people, particularly if you don't have you know, a lot of external validation…”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 31:02 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Opinion
Laqua: New York is a terrible startup hub, founders move there only to date
“That's why I think New York is not a good place to have a company at all. The people that, that move their companies to New York do so because they want to date. And they're, you know, that's the only reason, really real reason why they do.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 26:03 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Laqua receives death threats over Corgi's intense work culture
“The death threats and the DMs you know, people, people think I'm nuts.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 30:50 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 30, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laqua keeps a mattress in the Corgi office to sleep there
“Yeah, I have a mattress there.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 13:44 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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