Tom Loverro
14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 13, 2023 by Tom Loverro · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Feb 13, 2023 neutral
Loverro: Startups will rush fundraising into July and August 2023
“I think a lot of firms or a lot of startups are going to be raising later this year. And that usually means like labor day and everybody wants to get in front of that. So my guess is July and August, we start seeing a lot more businesses come to market knowing…”
Feb 13, 2023 neutral
Feb 13, 2023 bearish
Loverro: Current tech downturn hangover will be worse than 2008 GFC
“In the lead up to the great financial crisis mortgages were going bananas. You had LBOs going bananas. Investors and venture weren't to the same degree. You didn't see companies in the public markets in tech or the privates trading at You know, hundreds of tim…”
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Loverro: Passive venture capital governance is dead and will not return
“Last year, I have to say there was this meme that founders didn't want investors on their board, that governance wasn't important, and that founders just wanted cheap, easy capital, and I'm not sure I ever fully believed it, but I was damn scared that could be…”
Feb 13, 2023
Loverro: Startups should finish fundraising with 6-7 months runway remaining
“My rule of thumb is you should start raising by 12 months. If you have 12 months of capital left, you're in the red zone. Now, does that mean you need to hit go and speak to every venture firm with exactly 365 days, you know, to go? No. But it means your strat…”
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Feb 13, 2023
Loverro: Ten-Day Fundraising Deadlines Work Best After Prior Relationship Building
“10 days is a good deadline. Have a deadline. The only other thing I'd add though, is if you really want people to have maximum conviction, 10 days is like the detailed diligence, but if they understand the business and they have a relationship with you, have t…”
Feb 13, 2023 bullish
Loverro: Passing on Fivetran cost hundreds of millions in missed gains
“Biggest mistakes in investing are not doing the things that make you a lot of money, because the opportunity cost there so far outweighs anything else. So I feel like my biggest mistake in the last couple years was not investing in an entrepreneur named George…”
Feb 13, 2023
Feb 13, 2023 negative
Loverro: Venture capital is too hierarchical and promotes talent too slowly
“And I think venture is too hierarchical we promote people too slowly, but a lot of the talent and the ideas come from people who are younger in their careers and so I think venture firms need to promote sooner, give mid-level junior people more credit, it'll o…”
Feb 13, 2023 bullish
Loverro: RRE Ventures executed a rare successful bridge round for Venmo
“At RRE, there was a bridge round we did for what is now a very famous fintech company that got the company to a sale. Ironically, though, in retrospect, that was just a good company. And they should have just raised more money and kept calling. That company wa…”