Satya Patel
20 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2016 by Satya Patel · said 34 times in 15 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (23), Jason Lemkin (5), Jonathan Abrams (2), Hunter Walk (2), Sean Brecker (1), Charles Hudson (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 4 mentions in 1 episode
2018 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 6 mentions in 1 episode
2016 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- 20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- 20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Satya Patel, oldest first
Mar 28, 2016
Patel: Co-founder disputes, lack of focus, and running out of money kill startups
“I think it boils down to probably one of three primary problems. One is that, and this is more common than people might suspect is that the founders disagree. And they decide they don't want to be co-founders anymore. So that happens quite often. Number two is…”
Mar 28, 2016 neutral
Mar 28, 2016 positive
Patel: Homebrew seeks narrow near-term product focus with broad long-term vision
“So we like to see as I referenced earlier, kind of a very narrow near-term focus, but in the founder's mind, a path to a broad long-term vision. So start with something small, start with something meaningful, start with something that people will love. And the…”
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016
Patel: Landed first VC job by sending 50-plus physical letters
“My first investing job happened because I literally sent fifty-plus snail mail letters to venture firms looking for a job. Even back then, lots of venture firms didn't have email that they published, certainly, and many didn't use email.”
Mar 28, 2016
Patel: Insatiable desire to learn is key component of a great VC
“I think the key component of a great VC is an insatiable desire to learn that can play itself out in the form of hustle in many ways, because you're hustling in order to get exposed to things that are going to educate you. And in today's world, in the hyper-co…”
Mar 28, 2016 neutral
Mar 28, 2016 positive
Apr 3, 2017 positive
Hunter Walk: Founder-market fit is Homebrew's primary investment evaluation criterion
“I think if Satya and I had to make a decision about any one quality that was present or not present in terms of impacting a investment decision, it would probably be something around founder market Or the why, why are they building this company?”
Jan 31, 2023
Patel: Homebrew created two SPVs in 2022 leading Series D and E
“As an example, I think we've done a handful of SBVs now, but we did two last year, which led the Series E and Series D rounds for two of our later stage companies by virtue of having built that relationship and taking advantage of the market dislocation, where…”
Jan 31, 2023
Walk: Homebrew co-founders had millions saved before starting the fund
“I think, like, not that this is, you know, sort of unspoken, because I think we've both talked about this, but, like, we also started this later in our careers, right? Like, we were both in our, you know, mid-late thirties, and I think it's, like, we both We w…”
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023 negative
Patel: $100M seed funds are awkwardly sized tweeners in current venture markets
“In today's market at the seed stage in particular a hundred million dollar fund is a bit of a tweener. You've either got to be larger to be able to write large checks and get the ownership that you need in order to win the best opportunities and deliver the ty…”
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023 bearish
Patel: Momentum investing fails to generate outsized returns in changing markets
“Everyone was focused on being part of every company that seemed like it had momentum because everybody else was investing in it, and that looked great because the bull market ran longer than it did, but in markets that change, like, that's not a strategy that'…”
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Patel: VCs should let struggling startups ride if founders can pivot
“VCs, we're in the business of losing money, right? Like, there's a reason that the power law is a thing, and if you still believe that the founders are smart enough to try to figure something out, even if it's a pivot, then you let it ride, and you see if they…”
Jan 31, 2023 positive
Jan 31, 2023 neutral
Patel: Homebrew testing whether non-lead seed investors can maintain lead influence
“One of the experiments we're running here is kind of the testing the thinking around can capital and counsel be separated over the course of time, right? And so one of the things we're trying to evaluate is in some cases when we do a smaller check, can we stil…”