venture investor

“When the tough get going, they start looking at the legal docs and how they can screw the company and the founders. That's not cool, and no great investor does that in the long run.”

“At the end of the day, 2000 companies in a given year will get funded from venture investors and 200 of those will probably be done by firms that, that We would consider peers of ours and quality investors. And at the end of the day, 10, 10 of those will drive…”

“And the ones who can do that best are the ones who have actually done this stuff before, because they're coming at it from a place of being a practitioner. So there's automatic empathy. There's automatic respect from both parties. And I think it just yields, i…”

“I don't think in the near term you're going to have a machine fully replace the way, you know, venture investors work, fully replace the way startup founders work, podcast producers or marketers.”

“I don't think it's about optimizing the deal and the structure and, you know, squeezing out that extra 50 basis points of ownership. I just don't think it's about that in the long run.”

“When the founder is successful, the company is successful, and the venture investor is successful. And it happens in that order.”

“There's statistically significant data in research that will tell you that when male founders are meeting with investors, whether they're male or female investors, they are asked the question of what is the greatest opportunity that you have ahead of you? And …”

“And I think the best venture investors really focus on helping in a few areas and kind of staying out of the way in most aspects of running the company.”

“Entrepreneurs are often surrounded by venture investors, perhaps very successful venture investors, that may have motivations that somewhat differ from that of the entrepreneur, but the entrepreneur may be going through it for the first time. The VC may have d…”

“And I think that's probably why venture investors that are younger tend to enter and think about and go along with new innovative models. And I also think that's why venture people at a past a certain age point exit out of the business. They can't learn enough…”

“Some of the best investors, I mean, actually, almost all the best investors I know will tell you, I don't know what I don't know. And here's the thing, they're able to quantify their confidence level.”

“Would you invest your own money in the deal proportionate to your own personal net worth? So if you are evaluating an investment for the fund that would account for five percent of the fund's capital, would you invest five percent of your own net worth in that…”

“An angel is kind of the equivalent of investing as a friend. They're not nearly as invested. They're not, as it were, like married to the project. They put money in lots of different bets, even when they're, they can be very helpful and helpful, and they're no…”

“In some categories, I would say absolutely not. I think that in B to B, I really think that they can.”

“Let's just say great venture investors have no problem with bad news. Our day is loaded with bad news. We have a huge problem with surprises.”

“I think one of the biggest problems with Venture State is venture investors, who especially haven't been operators, are too nervous to tell founders the truth because they don't want a bad MPS.”

“And I more lean towards 90% of it being captured by incumbents, which isn't great for us as venture investors”

“At TwentyVC, we have the most comprehensive data on a generation of venture investors. We have over a thousand track records, over 10,000 references with individual NPS from founders on their investors, where they added value, where they didn't add value, how …”

“Very, very few investors are committed to that kind of timeline. They're all, everything's so short term minded”

“Most investors mistakes were not to invest in the right company Because they thought it's too expensive.”

“And I think we're just going to see a generation of venture investors burn a load of cash again on hard tech.”

“Everyone's over-investing right now into this cycle, and because none of us can miss, whether it's the large incumbents, Or us as venture investors back in companies.”

“I don't think you're gonna get your money back in a reasonable time.”

“I've never run a company in my life. By the way, nor have, like, 98% of venture investors or private equity investors.”

“And it's why I think, you know, it's one of the things why I think venture investors can be mediocre public investors.”

“There are three types of people, those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened. And I think at best venture investors are in the second one. Sometimes unfortunately they can be in the third.”

“I think richer investors make better investors because you do not worry about downside mitigation, but you focus on upside optimization.”