Sam Corcos
23 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2023 by Sam Corcos · across every show →
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Dec 11, 2023 positive
Corcos: Founders fail if they don't maintain explicit lists of investor asks
“The first and most important thing is you need to know what you need. If I say, how can I help? And you say, I don't know, you've already failed. You need to have a list of things that your, you and your team need help with, because you'd be surprised at how o…”
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Corcos: Fundraising transparency works when founders build internal trust
“If you've built up enough social capital internally, think of it like you've built up the trust bank with enough of enough credibility that people know that you're not lying to them, then it's totally fine. And it's never been an issue.”
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Corcos: Employees outside an immediate team rarely identify low performers
“They actually very often don't. The people who work directly with them, maybe like the two or three people who are closest to them know, but everyone else at the company, if they end up leaving, it's a complete mystery why they left.”
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Corcos Manages Relationship Logistics With Wednesday Dates and a Notion Doc
“We do a weekly date night, which we have scheduled on Wednesdays. We do also every Saturday, we have scheduled family priorities where we have a running notion doc of logistics, things that we argued about that we want to talk about, just dedicated time just t…”
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Corcos: Startup talent quality follows a U-curve as companies scale
“I think in many ways there's also a U-shape to this, where in the very early days, sometimes you just hire the best person that you can get. Because you don't have a lot of choices. And then over time, as you see some amount of traction, you can attract really…”
Dec 11, 2023 neutral
Corcos: VCs Have Far Greater Market Exposure Than Founders
“The reality is that VCs or investors broadly just have way more exposure than a founder does. If you're a founder and you're working on your one company for five years. You don't know what's going on outside of your company. You don't have the capacity. You're…”
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Corcos: Founders Should Use Roll-Up Vehicles for Early Startup Fundraising Rounds
“If there's one thing I would have done differently is I would have used a rollup vehicle of some kind to just make the collection easier. Those weren't as common when we did our seed round. It was the round that had the larger number of people in it. Having a …”
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Corcos Prefers Direct, Full-Contact Investors Like Keith Rabois Over Passive Ones
“Keith from founders fund is known for being pretty full contact. And I. Talk to some people who really did not like working with him, but they didn't like working him. They didn't like working with him for reasons that I would actually enjoy working with him, …”
Dec 11, 2023 bullish
Levels found early post-IPO company employees were their highest-ROI investors
“When we did some analysis on who our most ROI positive investors were, one of the biggest categories was early employees at post IPO companies. And these are people who have some amount of capital that they want to deploy, but maybe, you know, five, 10,000 dol…”
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Levels tracks investor engagement and has investors who ignored 17 requests
“We keep track of all of these things on how many emails we send, what the, Conversion rate is on those requests. And like, we have several people on the list that I've sent them 17 requests and they've converted on zero of them.”
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Corcos: Co-founders who cannot commit to CEO decisions should leave
“There's a point at which, you know, you can disagree behind closed doors, but once the path is defined, which is defined by the CEO, you've got to get behind it or you've got to leave. Frankly, like if you can't get behind the idea and you can't get behind the…”
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Corcos: Pre-Meeting Rejections Are Wins Because Founder Pitch Time Is Finite
“The number of investors available is effectively infinite, and the amount of time that you have to pitch people is finite. And so if you can get them to say no before you have to spend any time with them, that's actually a win, not a loss.”