Samir Kaul
9 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2020 by Samir Kaul · said 20 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Keith Rabois (14), Harry Stebbings (4), Jeff Russakow (1), Delian Asparouhov (1)
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2024 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Samir Kaul, oldest first
Jan 13, 2020 positive
Founders should start board meetings with one slide on key concerns
“Make sure at least 48 hours before the board meeting, you've sent a pre-read. And for goodness sake, please don't just read us those slides. You've got three to four hours with six or eight busy, intelligent people, hopefully, and you've got us in a room toget…”
Jan 13, 2020 positive
Khosla Ventures allocates one-third of capital to non-traditional tech sectors
“And I think one of the things I really love about our firm is that though we do invest half or more in traditional venture areas. We also spend about a third or so of our allocation in areas that have yet to be disrupted by technology, don't have venture there…”
Jan 13, 2020 negative
Jan 13, 2020 negative
Jan 13, 2020 positive
Kaul: VCs are judged on net returns above 20% IRR, not win rates
“In this business, being conservative is a real problem, because we're in the business of returning 20% or greater net IRR to our investors, and we don't get judged by how many companies succeed out of the number of companies we invest in.”
Jan 13, 2020 bullish
Samir Kaul: Double down aggressively when positive startup signals emerge
“The odds of one of our initial investments being successful is lower than 50%. Sometimes it's 10%. And so when you get a signal that it might be better, you've got to really push your chips to the table and have the courage to do that.”
Jan 13, 2020
Jan 13, 2020 neutral
Jan 12, 2024
Rabois: Passed on Robinhood seed after Khosla banned seed board seats
“I had already, like, locked in a turn sheet to lead the series seat for Robin Hood chilling at 20 post, which was pretty expensive, but they came back and Really wanted me to join the board in the seed round, and this was in maybe my second year at KB, so I as…”