venture capital deals

“And in my kind of seven to eight years in venture, some of our best deals would have never gotten done had an analyst not pounded the table and made the argument on behalf of the entrepreneur.”

“I say in every deal, we have to give ourselves a chance in that one deal to get rich. And this is because I've done, I did YC deals back in the day where I'd put 25 grand in and I'd sell the company for, you know, fifteen million dollars. My 25 grand became 75…”

“By the end of the day, the deals that get done, it's the ones where the partner sitting there saying, I'm pounding the table that the high end and more as possible. And that's, that really is the qualitative overlay that has massive quantitative implications.”