Rachel Drori
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2018 by Rachel Drori · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Fundraising Is Like Dating and How to Play The Game Successfully & How To Increase The Flexibility of Your Burn When Growth is Ambiguous with Rachel Blumenthal, Founder & CEO @ Rockets of Awesome
- 20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
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Everything said about Rachel Drori, oldest first
Mar 30, 2018 negative
Drori: Early male VCs failed to understand Daily Harvest's frozen food concept
“And the reason why is because I started speaking to people early on and I found that they just didn't get the business. It was mostly middle-aged men who I was talking to, and they would taste one of our first collections, which was smoothies, and they'd be li…”
Mar 30, 2018
Drori rejected Series A term sheets to write her own
“So I actually decided to blow up the entire round and basically wrote my own term sheet and sent it back to everybody. And I said, Hey guys, little untraditional here, but this is how it's going to be. And I sent back the term sheet and I said, do you want to …”
Mar 30, 2018
Daily Harvest raised Series B in two weeks pitching six VCs
“I actually went out for the round. I only went out to six VCs, and I'd already had relationships. I already knew that I wanted to work with them, and I ran a true process, but in such a short period of time. First, instead of that six weeks that the other two …”
Mar 30, 2018 positive
Drori uses stoic worst-case analysis to handle startup crises
“And for me, the thing that I always go back to is stoicism or stoic philosophy. And I always ask myself, what's the absolute worst thing that can happen? So, you know, in that moment I said, okay, well, worst case scenario, people don't get charged. It's one w…”
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First-time founders must project confidence and fake a track record
“If you've never done it before, you have to pretend that you know exactly what you're doing because you really don't earn points for being a rookie, so, you know, people are looking to invest in people who have a proven track record. Well, guess what? If you d…”
Mar 30, 2018
Work-life balance is impossible and founders must accept trade-offs
“I think before I had kids, there was this idea that you can have it all at some point, and I realized that that is just It's not possible, you know, and I think that it's an idealized vision that a lot of people have, like, oh, you know, I'll be able to do eve…”