Steve Vassallo
7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2018 by Steve Vassallo · said 21 times in 4 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2026 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Feb 26, 2018
Feb 26, 2018
Vassallo: Designer-founders must approach business models like user experience
“And so I think most designers really need to begin to kind of step back from their sort of super strength in product design and understand that, Hey, like I also need to think about my business model in this with the same intentionality and the same focus that…”
Feb 26, 2018
Feb 26, 2018
Vassallo: Young workers over-optimize for initial salary over long-term mentorship
“The most common failure mode that I see for young people designers and engineers, business folks coming into the workforce is that they over optimize around title and or around salary, or around sort of very much the, sort of call them the transactional compon…”
Feb 26, 2018
Vassallo: Startup ecosystem's major failure mode is shipping overly lightweight MVPs
“This notion of minimum viable product, I think, is in some senses cute to talk about. It's certainly something that I think for folks who are used to building, Cathedrals for prototypes. I think it's something that would help them in many regards, but I think …”
Feb 26, 2018 negative
Vassallo: Joining mediocre small startups is where resumes go to die
“The middle point, in other words, going and joining a small startup where your friends are working because you know somebody there or because it, you know, sort of sounds like an interesting category, but you're not really sure because you haven't spent enough…”