Nico Wittenborn
11 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 22, 2023 by Nico Wittenborn · said 18 times in 11 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (14), Suchit Dash (2), Martin Mignot (2)
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2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
- 20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Nico Wittenborn, oldest first
May 22, 2023 bullish
Wittenborn: Seed offers best risk-reward ratio for multi-billion dollar exit targets
“I believe that seed is the best in terms of upside potential, downside risk, and Expected future dilution, especially given that we, I operate under the assumption that we, I have multi-billion dollar exits, not ten billion dollar exit, right?”
May 22, 2023 bearish
May 22, 2023 bullish
Wittenborn: Consumer app prices will follow SaaS trajectory over 5-10 years
“The price increases that we have seen since, like, let's say, a corn launch to what it charges yearly today and what it will charge in five to 10 years, I think it has a similar trajectory to what we've seen with SaaS companies and their ability to extract val…”
May 22, 2023
Wittenborn: Early-stage VCs must bet on market change, not static metrics
“The way that a growth investor looks at is, is that the static, right? They need to understand the size and the benchmarks and make it fit their formulas. And then it has to add up and make sense. We, I think me, thesis driven investors, I think need to unders…”
May 22, 2023 positive
Point Nine broke its rules to invest in Revolut's seed round
“When I was with .9 and reinvested in Revolut, it was both outside of the focus, right? It's a mobile consumer app. It was actually had just closed the seat round with Balderton. So there was no actionable opportunity and the only way to get in was actually for…”
May 22, 2023 positive
May 22, 2023 neutral
May 22, 2023
Wittenborn: VC regret requires better decision-making, not more deal volume
“I think, I mean, this is actually a good also, I mean, so I think most regrets that we have as investors are the companies we didn't invest in. And so what does it mean? Does it mean that we have to see more companies? It usually means we have to be better at …”
May 22, 2023 positive
May 22, 2023 neutral