operating experience
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2016 by Sarah Tavel · across every show →
Everything said about operating experience, oldest first
Apr 6, 2016 negative
Sep 5, 2016 positive
Ben Lerer: Best Early-Stage VCs Are Former Operators, Not Number Crunchers
“But for me, the best investors, particularly the best early stage investors are going to be people who have actually been in the trenches and built and sold their own businesses and raised money for their own businesses and gone through sort of that slog versu…”
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Motschwiller: Operating experience can cause VCs to overestimate problem difficulty
“The flip side to that is you might understand that there's a problem that's so hard to solve, it was so hard for you to solve, that then you don't believe that This entrepreneur will solve it, and it might lead you to overestimate the difficult of that problem…”
Dec 6, 2022 negative
Casado: Operating background likely hurts venture capitalists more than it helps
“I don't know if operating helps or not. Like, I don't know if it helps you pick. I don't know if it helps you close. I don't know. Like, I don't know how to answer that. Probably not. It probably hurts more than helps.”
Jun 26, 2023
Stebbings: Past operating experience decays faster than ever due to AI
“The rate of decay on operating experience has never been greater because of two things. One is actually, I think, AI fundamentally changes so much about Enterprise stacks. I think you could say the same for cloud actually in on-prem in some enterprise cases. A…”