Terrence Rohan

10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2024 by Terrence Rohan · across every show →

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Feb 5, 2024 positive
Insight
Rohan: A great cold email is a form of founder hustle
“A great, not, not a bad, but a great cold email is a form of hustle. Absolutely. One that's like, Human. Snaps your attention. Personable. Boom. That a hundred percent is a form of.”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:33:24 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024
Insight
Rohan: Venture conviction is rarer than favorable pricing
“One undisputable law, empirical law of a venture is the power law, right? And so the rare thing is not price. The rare thing is conviction and the company. And so if you've got conviction and you found the company, you write that check, 10,000,020 million, a h…”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 23:29 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 neutral
Insight
Rohan: Post-Series B venture investing relies on access, not picking
“Post series B, these things become not only like, they become painfully obvious and it's picking is not the thing. It's just access, right?”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 52:29 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rohan: AI will not replace human relationships in seed investing
“But the core of what we do is this very human, very personal thing. And I don't think that's going to be replaced by AI in terms of like the core thing.”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:37:02 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rohan: Seed investors had 50% to 75% deal coverage around 2010
“When David and I started, like, this ecosystem was so small, like, the seed deals would almost pass through everyone's inbox, like, almost everyone, it was like, you almost had, like, 50 to 75% coverage of any given deal.”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 33:36 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 neutral
Insight
Rohan: VCs should act like patrons, not hands-on coaches
“I actually believe like the best investors, like for a company to truly be incredible, the founder actually, it has to come from the founder. It really does. It's like a real creative process, like analogy I've been kind of playing around recently. It's like y…”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:24:46 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 negative
Insight
Rohan: Reserve allocations for follow-ons depress seed fund DPI
“On balance, I don't think reserves and follow ons, I think it actually hurts seed investing and it hurts seed investing in two ways. One is it depresses DPI.”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 50:34 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 positive
Insight
Rohan: Competitor updates to founders are only valuable if non-public
“Very, very, very asymmetrical knowledge of this of like, Hey, listen, this one raised or this one raised this much. And that's like not general knowledge, but it's known because of what you do. That's helpful.”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:32:13 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Rohan: Forwarding public news on competitors to founders is useless
“I don't think it's valuable. I think it's a strike. I mean, I, first of all, I think founders have such an awareness of the market. Like you might get to them like, 12 hours, maybe a few days before, but they're gonna see it, right?”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:31:33 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 5, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rohan: Will invest in uncapped SAFEs with time-bound conversion provisions
“Yes. I put certain provisions around them that they, if they don't raise at a certain point, that, that, that, that it would, like, convert at something at some point, but I generally, generally would do it.”
Terrence Rohan Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:34:12 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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