Vlad Magdalin
8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2019 by Vlad Magdalin · said 13 times in 8 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- 20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- 20VC: Why Speed Is The Biggest Differentiator a Founder Can Have, How To Hire Seasoned Tier 1 Talent To An Early Stage Startup & How To Start, Scale and Manage Remote Teams with Domm Holland, Founder & CEO @ Fast
- 20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
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Everything said about Vlad Magdalin, oldest first
Nov 1, 2019
Vlad Magdalin: Contractual board control is an illusion as startups scale
“The more a company scales, all that stuff gets away from you anyway, even if on paper you own more of the company. I mean, you see the stuff that we work, you see like Travis having to leave Uber. Even though they technically legally had control, like what rea…”
Nov 1, 2019
Nov 1, 2019 neutral
Magdalin: Webflow pursued breakeven as survival tactic, not planned strategy
“Like, wow, like, we're default dead if we keep doing what we're doing, if we're not going to be able to raise something else, and that's what forced the mindset shift of, we're spending money way too fast, and we might not have this lifeline that somebody else…”
Nov 1, 2019
Nov 1, 2019 negative
Nov 1, 2019
Magdalin: Over-optimizing for cap table control limits company growth and valuation
“I just think sometimes they Over-optimized for that stuff, and wait way too long, and not find this partner that can, like, really amplify your trajectory, and your ability to hire, like, really amazing talent, and all that stuff, so you sort of, like, miss th…”
Nov 1, 2019
Nov 1, 2019 negative
Vlad Magdalin: Top-tier VC pitches are mostly generic and transactional
“I had so many conversations with like pretty much all the top tier firms, like partners at those firms, and there weren't many standouts, right? Like most of the conversations were kind of the same, like, oh, there's something working. How do we double down? H…”