Samir Vasavada
26 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2024 by Samir Vasavada · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Vasavada: Founders Should Underwrite Stakeholders' Incentives, Not Their Emotions
“The mistake I made was underwriting people's emotions, not their incentives. And I was like, oh, this person is saying this particular thing to me. They feel this particular way. I don't want them to feel this particular way. I'm going to say this particular t…”
Jun 28, 2024 positive
Vasavada: Vise Was Among the First Tech Startups to Execute a Reset
“And I ended up being right because when, before the market really took a turn, we were one of the first companies to do a major reset. And it was more painful because other companies weren't doing it, but it ended up positioning ourselves so significantly bett…”
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Vasavada: Selling More Secondary Stock Would Have Been the Smart Financial Move
“I think it would have been a smart personal financial decision, and it's clear that a lot of other founders took, you know, sometimes a hundred million dollars of secondary. But so maybe from a personal financial decision, it would have been the risk-adjusted …”
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Vasavada: 99% of Startup Advice Given to Founders Is Bad
“You don't get enough advice, and then you start getting capital, and you have stakeholders, and you get too much advice, and the problem is a lot of this advice is either bad advice, 99% of the advice is bad advice, and then the rest of the advice is contradic…”
Jun 28, 2024 positive
Vasavada: Modest Secondary Liquidity Is Critical for Founder Decision-Making
“It was, I think, for a founder to get a little bit of liquidity is really, really important in terms of long-term decision-making. Because from an incentives perspective, if you're a founder and you've got a hundred percent of your, you know, net worth in, in …”
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Vasavada: Investors Pretended to Be Friends Until Vise Stopped Being Hot
“Some investors, I think, pretended to be our friends. And, you know, when incentives were flipped or we weren't as hot, I think they weren't our friends anymore, and I think that hurt because I thought those people were truly our friends.”
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Vasavada: Concentrating Board Ownership in One VC Suppresses Healthy Debate
“You want multiple voices in the boardroom, and I think the challenge is when you have One investor that owns 30% of the company and, you know, has piled in, you know, close to fifty million bucks, then you're going to have that investor's perspective as, you k…”
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Jun 28, 2024 negative
Vasavada Admits He Was Overly Optimistic With Early Investors Due to Naivety
“I think it was too optimistic early on, and I think now I see a deep sense of reality. And part of why I was very optimistic is just because I didn't know any other way to be. Like, I was just very, like, I was naive, and as a result of being naive, I was very…”
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Vasavada: Use Transfer Restrictions to Block Unknown Buyers in Secondary Sales
“Well, you don't want investors, like if an investor wants to sell, you should let them sell, but you need to know who's buying the stock because the worst case scenario is you let the investor sell to some rando and that rando ends up being a pain On your cap …”
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