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Jon Dishotsky

Founder & Managing Partner, Daft Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dishotsky co-founded the co-living platform Starcity and served as its CEO until its acquisition by Common in 2021. Today, he leads early-stage investments through his venture firm Daft Capital.

8statements → 1claims → 1claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.25/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 2 opinions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jon argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Dishotsky: Seasoned founders statistically outperform younger founders
“And I actually think that the statistics are in our favor. The seasoned guys and gals are actually better performers in many cases, so.”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 23:41 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

How they sound: speaking style how? →

243 words/min while actually speaking · 1.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jon Dishotsky: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 14 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 4,327 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Jon Dishotsky is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 5/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 45%

Everything Jon Dishotsky said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Dishotsky: Optimizing seed valuation caps between $6M and $12M is pointless
“If you're trying to value invest at the seed stage, it's kind of a silly exercise. So I think that like optimizing between a six cap and a 12 cap is really like, I just don't know that that's going to be the right way to invest. I think you're just kind of lik…”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 13:08 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Opinion
Dishotsky: Initialized Capital deserves credit for calling out startup hustle porn culture
“And I actually have to give kudos to the initialized guys for taking down the notion of sort of hustle porn, as I would say. There's this concept in the valley that like you should just grind to the limits of your existence and think about yourself secondarily…”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 17:55 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Assertion Supported
Dishotsky: Seasoned founders statistically outperform younger founders
“And I actually think that the statistics are in our favor. The seasoned guys and gals are actually better performers in many cases, so.”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 23:41 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Opinion
Dishotsky: WeWork set the stage for modern PropTech
“And I think WeWork was the first one that really sort of set the stage. Before that, there was really only like LoopNet and Zillow and Renfin. And, you know, those were really taking a very, you know, web two point O approach to prop tech of, Just being sort o…”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 7:35 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Insight
Dishotsky: Averaging advice from mentors leads to mediocre startup decisions
“Really try to not optimize on the average of all that advice, but really take in sort of the good and the bad, but take it and do it your way. And I think that's really, really important. Otherwise you'll end up with some of a lot of mediocre advice.”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 12:29 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Disclosure
Starcity took a lower valuation offer from Bullpen Capital over bigger VCs
“We took on the folks from Eric Weizen from Bullpen Capital, and I'm just a huge fan of Bullpen Capital and what Paul has built over there. Their offer was a little bit lower, and they were sort of very transparent”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 14:22 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Insight
Jon Dishotsky: Founders should continuously build investor relationships instead of isolated sprints
“Without sort of soft pitching people throughout a series of meetings and You know, you really don't get a chance to build that relationship and your chances of success are just so much lower. Whereas I think you should just always be building fundraising relat…”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 16:26 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
Disclosure
Dishotsky: Star City interviewed 750 prospective residents before launching
“We started the company by talking to 750 people who were making 50 to 120,000 dollars a year, who had full-time jobs, and were living in cities 20 to 50 years old.”
Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 9:17 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not T May 17, 2019 18m
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