Saar Gur

7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2017 by Sar Gur · said 11 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Mar 27, 2017 neutral
Insight
Gur: Capital is the single biggest value VCs provide to founders
“Again, having, having worked in companies, I realized that, you know, some, we, I think we add value, but you know, 99% of the work is on the founders, but there's true, the biggest value that we add is the money.”
Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 7:36 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
Mar 27, 2017
Insight
Gur: Exceptional CEOs actively treat executive leadership as a learned skill
“It turns out, you know, no one is born a CEO and many young founders. I don't see them applying a growth mindset to sort of understanding what being a CEO means and how that role changes over time. And some of my best CEOs are just maniacal in, in their though…”
Saar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 13:19 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
Mar 27, 2017 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gur: 30% to 50% of startup executive hires fail
“30 to 50%, depending on the company of the executives we hire, are not going to work out, or they're going to work for some period of time, and then, you know, we need to find someone else”
Saar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 16:16 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
Mar 27, 2017
Insight
Gur: Entering venture capital is like deciding who to marry
“You can decide you want to do venture, but that's like deciding you want to get married. You know, these are like, you know, it does depend who the girl is or the guy”
Saar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 6:08 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
Mar 27, 2017 negative
Opinion
Gur: Venture capital needs diversity to overcome male and white bias
“You know, I definitely don't think we need more VCs, but we definitely need a All the great businesses I know out there that aren't getting funded and could have a big impact in the world, and they just don't get funded because of the biases that we have as a …”
Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 19:48 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
Mar 27, 2017 bullish
Disclosure
CRV frequently funds portfolio startups rejected by outside investors
“At CRV, we tend to come from believing in the founder's First at the time we invest, then that, you know, that investment is mostly a statement of belief in the team, and so if the team is making progress, I find time and time again, honestly, we throw good mo…”
Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 7:59 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
Mar 27, 2017
Insight
Gur: Founders must treat company building itself as their core product
“So one of the things I love in being a venture capitalist is once a The company actually becomes the product, in my mind, meaning a lot of the work that we do as VCs, and many VCs will tell their CEOs, you should be spending, you know, 90% of your time on hiri…”
Saar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 14:23 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV
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