Nicolas Dessaigne
10 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2016 by Nicolas Dessaigne · said 14 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (7), Jason Lemkin (5)
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2026 4 mentions in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Nicolas Dessaigne, oldest first
Apr 22, 2016 positive
Founders Must Lean Into Authentic Strengths Rather Than Imitating Steve Jobs
“If you have someone who is very good at, very charismatic, but is not believable, It's not going to work either. You need to play your strengths, and my strengths are not like into the I'm not Steve Jobs or these kind of leaders, kind of leader could I be? And…”
Apr 22, 2016
Algolia's Co-Founders Were Both Technical Rather Than Complementary
“I wouldn't say we were such complementary partners in our case, because we were both technical, like the way we wanted to build the team, the important things for a company, all of that things were like the core things we agreed upon.”
Apr 22, 2016 positive
Jun 16, 2017 positive
Hiring top engineering talent is easier in Europe than San Francisco
“The concentration of, like, good tech people is probably better In Europe compared to, like, the competition you have here in SF. I mean, you have, like, crazy good people here, but the local industry is startup, so you are going to compete with so many other …”
Jun 16, 2017 positive
San Francisco offers a superior talent pool for senior sales executives
“For a company, like a tech company like ours, definitely the talent pool for sales and marketing talents is San Francisco, especially for the highest positions. If you are looking for VP marketing, VP sales, The talent pool is much better here.”
Jun 16, 2017 bullish
Search will shift from keywords to conversational interfaces
“The way really we see things evolving is that tomorrow we are not going to search as we do today with keywords type enter and wait for an answer. It's going to become more and more interactive and then conversational. And so I believe that in the, in a few yea…”
Jun 16, 2017 positive
Algolia raised a $53 million Series B led by Accel
“Just last week, he raised a whopping fifty-three million dollar Series B, led by Excel, with participation from Sasta, Des Trainer at Intercom, Jotty Bansal at AppDynamics, and Carl Valberg at Envision, including Prior Investors .9 Capital and Alvin.”
Jun 16, 2017
Growth startups should target two years of runway over 18 months
“In our case, I would look more at two years than 18 months, and when you're looking at that, you are like, Working with the assumptions that you are going to be very aggressive on the market, on investment and growth, so that there is no bad surprise.”
Nov 30, 2022 neutral
Jun 25, 2026 positive
O'Driscoll: AI startups with poor margins historically raised capital successfully
“The objective reality is that's not what was happening. In other words, companies with tough gross margin profiles and hyper growth have been getting funded and frankly have been able to improve their gross margins and pull it off. And you can, the foundation,…”