Scott Sandell
18 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 8, 2019 by Dayna Grayson · said 14 times in 7 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
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2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Scott Sandell, oldest first
Apr 8, 2019
NEA's Scott Sandell decides on investments within 15 minutes
“I've seen some of the greatest investors Do just that. Meet with an entrepreneur. Within the 1:15 minutes, they're either excited or they're not. If they're excited, they're investing. Scott Sandell at NEA is a great example of that. It's very much his style.”
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 negative
Sandell: VC differentiation is harder as competitors push absurd valuations
“At the simplest level, it's harder and harder to differentiate yourself as a venture capitalist when people will come along and offer valuations that might be, in your mind, sort of absurd, and so we've been facing this challenge now for a number of years, but…”
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 bullish
Mar 11, 2021
Sandell: Software post-IPO growth accelerated from 18% to 50% over two decades
“But interestingly enough, in the seven quarters after the IPO, the average company grew 18%. And that was considered fantastic. You couldn't get funded today if all you were doing was growing 18%. In the decade that followed, they grew 28%, and the decade just…”
Mar 11, 2021 bullish
Sandell: Tech startups founded today will rival ExxonMobil and GM
“The result will be that some very iconic companies are being built today that will be the Exxon's and General Motors of tomorrow, or the IBMs, and we've already seen a handful of examples. The FANG companies have already shown us what kind of upside is availab…”
Mar 11, 2021 neutral
Sandell: NEA grew flagship fund size from $2.3B to $3.6B in 20 years
“We've been growing actually relatively slowly, Harry, 10 or 15% fund to fund. We started with the first big fund, NEA-TEN, in 2000, a 2.3 billion dollar fund, so we've been growing on a large base since then, and our latest fund is 3.6 1,000,000,020 years late…”
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 positive
Sandell: NEA's top growth basket returned 36% annually over a decade
“This particular collection of companies has raised thirty-two billion dollars in total, and we've only been responsible for three billion of it. So that's kind of great. Our companies have had access to all this company. The problem is that that particular bas…”
Mar 11, 2021 bullish
Mar 11, 2021 bullish
Mar 11, 2021 bullish
Sandell: 100%+ software growth justifies paying premium entry valuations
“If it's a software company growing over a hundred percent a year, and I really believe that that's going to continue to happen for some period of time. Then I can justify paying a price that not too far down the road, maybe 18 or 24 months, or maybe even a yea…”
Jan 28, 2022
Sandell: Software automation is essential for sustaining a free consumer product
“You know, it was designed from the beginning to be self-serve, basically completely automated with software, and that turns out to be an enormous advantage in a business where you're trying to offer something for free.”
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022 bullish
Scott Sandell: Free is the most powerful business model in the world
“This fit into our overarching theme, you know, that the most powerful model in the world is free, and they were going to be disruptive because they were offering something of real value, you know, stock trading where commissions were seven or eight dollars a t…”
Jan 28, 2022 bullish
Jan 28, 2022 positive
Sandell: Robinhood's board pushed management to start spending on paid marketing
“In the board meetings, the board actually impressed upon the team that we should probably figure out How to spend some money on customer acquisition, because we could grow faster, and the payback on these customers was so high that you could afford to spend a …”