Paul Martino
9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2016 by Paul Martino · said 17 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
- 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
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2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
2016 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- 20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Paul Martino, oldest first
Nov 16, 2016
Nov 16, 2016
Nov 16, 2016 negative
Fewer than 10% of new VC funds have unique strategies
“I would say no more than 25 of them have a truly different strategy other than I'm better in this category. I'm better in this geography than these other people. And so it's crazy to me that less than 10% of all of the newly created funds have a different stra…”
Nov 16, 2016 positive
Bullpen Capital ignores founder pedigree and screens purely on metrics
“We ignore a lot of that stuff at the front of the screen and just look at the numbers. And what it allows us to do is it allows us to spot a lot of things other people are just missing. Categories, founding teams, and geographies that nobody's paying attention…”
Nov 16, 2016 negative
Nov 16, 2016 positive
The largest venture outcomes require pivots and extra discovery time
“And so the more we looked, the more we found that the biggest outcomes of the vintage were companies that had either pivoted once or on their second or third business model, or took a little bit more Time and that learning and discovery phrase to use Mike Mapl…”
Nov 16, 2016 positive
Founders are raising rolling seed tranches with increasing valuation caps
“And another thing that the smart entrepreneurs are doing is some of them are figuring out that they can do it a little bit at a time. I get my first six months on a cap note, and I get my next six months on another note, and I get my next six months on another…”
Nov 16, 2016
Bullpen Capital averages a 20% valuation step-up over prior seed rounds
“We're now 54 deals in across three funds, and on average, the valuation we pay is about 20% higher than the post money of the round in front of us. This is a very interesting statistic, and by the way, let me give you the variance. Our rounds are between flat …”
Nov 16, 2016 negative
Venture capitalists fail to recognize disruption within their own industry
“It is amazing that for a group of people that fund disruption to be so oblivious to disruption happening to their own business, it is It has been fascinating to me to see people who fund disruption, not understand that an iceberg hit this business over the las…”