Sujay Jaswa
12 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2022 by Sujay Jaswa · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Nov 23, 2022 positive
Jaswa: Silicon Valley startups have refocused on hard work and execution
“Over the last six or nine months, the idea of hard work being the priority of a startup, it's back to the top of the list, that your job is to fight for customers and build cool products and recruit the best people, and this doesn't sound like rocket science, …”
Nov 23, 2022 bearish
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Nov 23, 2022 negative
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Nov 23, 2022 bearish
Jaswa: Only 1-2 out of 1,000 'living dead' startups will pivot
“There is no doubt That one or two of those living dead companies will figure out a spectacular pivot over the next decade and builds unbelievable products that millions or tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people use. That's one or two out of probabl…”
Nov 26, 2022 bearish
Jaswa: Only one or two of 1,000 'living dead' startups will pivot
“There is no doubt that one or two of those living dead companies will figure out a spectacular pivot over the next decade and builds unbelievable products that millions or tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people use. And that's one or two out of pro…”
Nov 26, 2022
Jaswa: Sequoia partners staged an intervention to force a Dropbox executive firing
“The first person I ever fired, I won't, obviously won't say who they are, but it was a person in a leadership role at Dropbox and was clearly not delivering results. And Sequoia basically staged intervention with me. So Brian Schreier, who was on our board was…”
Nov 26, 2022 bearish
Nov 26, 2022
Jaswa: A major VC found their best founders ignored investor calls
“When I was at Dropbox, one of the large, I won't say who, but one of the largest investors in the world In tech told me that they had run a survey of all the investments they'd ever made. And the founders that didn't actually talk to them, refused to take thei…”
Nov 26, 2022
Jaswa: 98% of struggling startups should strip to core and take moonshots
“So basically I think this will be true for what I might, again, I'm just making this up at 98% of these companies. Strip the business down to the core. So you generate whatever, you know, whatever that means. Don't waste more time on it if it's not working. An…”
Nov 26, 2022 negative
Jaswa: Past operating experience is largely irrelevant when advising founders
“I think the biggest mistake operators make when they give advice to founders is it's purely out of the lens of their experience in the environment and the circumstances with the tools and the capabilities that they had available to them. And all those macro th…”