Sami Inkinen

21 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2017 by Sami Inkinen · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Oct 6, 2017
Insight
Inkinen: Deeply Empathizing With Team Problems Destroys CEO Focus
“I think it's dangerous if you start empathizing too much with the problems that your team is trying to solve, because that will just hijack your thinking, and it's just going to create stress.”
Sami Inkinen Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 8:45 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
Oct 6, 2017
Insight
Inkinen: Founders Learn Far More From Success Than From Failure
“I do think that you learn much more from a successful venture for a number of reasons. First of all, I think successful ventures usually last longer. So you simply have more time and more experiences to learn from. Versus a, often a faster failed attempt.”
Sami Inkinen Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 6:10 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
Oct 6, 2017 negative
Insight
Inkinen: Working while sleep-deprived creates no more CEO value than packing peanuts
“But that kind of grinding through stuff, tired and half sleep, that's basically a 10 dollars an hour job. It's like packing peanuts. That's not how you create value as a CEO.”
Sami Inkinen Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 17:26 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
Oct 6, 2017
Insight
Inkinen: Money, time, and shelf space are always fully consumed
“Money, time, and shelf space have at least one property in common, and that is, it doesn't matter how much you have, you end up using all of it, Or it just takes absolutely extraordinary discipline to fight against this urge to use it all.”
Sami Inkinen Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 10:35 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
Oct 6, 2017
Disclosure
Inkinen: Sleep-deprived 18-hour workdays at Trulia caused memory loss and illness
“And I can share a personal experience in the early, truly a years. I often work until one AM. I woke up at five AM and kept going like that, maybe six, sometimes seven days a week. And then on top of which I was doing a fair amount of physical training. And so…”
Sami Inkinen Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 16:37 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
Oct 6, 2017
Insight
Inkinen: Raised venture capital should be treated as a mortgage
“The mental model that I use, and I communicate to my team, every time we raise money, I say, I think about this cash that we raised as a mortgage that needs to be paid back.”
Sami Inkinen Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 12:00 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
Feb 28, 2024
Insight
Inkinen: Physical body training enables sustained intellectual focus
“And then the second reason is, honestly, it is very addictive and just fundamentally makes me feel both in my body and in my mind very good. And it allows me to be way more focused when I just have to sit down and only use my brain. So definitely It's part of …”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 12:21 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Insight
Sami Inkinen warns founders without non-work identities crumble during company crises
“And so, if you don't have other identities, the moments when things really hit the wall, you are very likely to crumble and crack.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 53:58 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Opinion
Inkinen: Having nannies raise children is not optimal for founders
“I think we both feel that. You know, having nannies raise your kids is not optimal.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 36:33 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Insight
Inkinen: Wealth offers temporary dopamine, not lasting happiness
“Money's gonna give some eternal joy and happiness and Then I got it, and 25 dollars, 25,000 dollars at Best Buy, and I realized that it was just like any dopamine, it's like a espresso, and it's, that is not gonna give you an eternal joy and satisfaction.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 19:31 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Insight
Inkinen: Pulling all-nighters is unsustainable for long-term founders
“To be able to be a founder, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, like, there's no way that's gonna work, you know, with all-nighters.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 57:15 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Insight
Sami Inkinen advises founders against starting companies with their spouses
“So I, my recommendation to everyone is it's very high beta. I would probably advise against because then you have too many eggs in the same basket. And if things go sideways, you can destroy your most important personal relationship in a process. So the cost o…”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 34:50 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Disclosure
Inkinen: I have an obsessive personality requiring constant self-observation
“A hundred percent. And I often tell my wife, I'm like, I'm so happy. I'm happily married. I, and I'm so glad I haven't I've gone down the path of very dangerous addictions actually ever in my life, but in almost anything I do, if one is good, I'll go for five,…”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 13:00 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
What-if
Sami Inkinen says sudden wealth while single would have fueled addictions
“Because if I was single, living in New York, suddenly a lot of money, suddenly a lot of time, and I'm feeling kind of rudderless and anxious, that would definitely would have been an optimal moment to go down the wrong path, wrong addictions.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 24:45 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sami Inkinen's parents did not attend high school or have professional training
“My parents didn't go to high school. They weren't professionally trained.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 2:19 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Insight
Inkinen: Building Companies Is Shallow Compared to Raising a Family
“All those stuff. You know, fine and good if you enjoy the process of creating those, but it is so shallow. Having children is the greatest thing.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 40:18 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Insight
Sami Inkinen argues 100 percent vulnerability in leadership is a disaster
“Being a hundred percent vulnerable in a hundred percent situations. I think that's a recipe for disaster. Like that's absolutely a recipe for disaster.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 29:04 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Assertion Supported
Sami Inkinen and his wife rowed 2,700 miles across the Pacific unsupported
“In, in summer, 2014 from Monterey, California, we hopped into a rowboat, 20 foot, roughly rowboat, unsupported rode across the Pacific Ocean, 2700 nautical miles to Hawaii. 45 days, three hours with your spouse.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 38:03 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Disclosure
Inkinen sold six figures of Trulia secondary stock before IPO
“I and we sold a little bit secondary in kind of six figures with my company Trulia before it went public. Maybe that was, let's just say, 2010, 2009, 2008 or something like that. So we saw six figures in US dollars of secondary.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 17:04 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Disclosure
Sami Inkinen suffered a panic attack two weeks after Trulia's IPO
“Two weeks after that, something wasn't working in our apartment. The silliest and the stupidest thing. And then suddenly I feel this sort of panic attack. I should be happy. I'm not.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 0:06 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Inkinen: I have cried countless times in front of my team as CEO
“Like I have cried countless times in front of my team as a CEO.”
Sami Inkinen Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 31:53 Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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