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David Sacks: Glorifying 'Doing Things That Don't Scale' Leads to Unscalable Startups
“I strongly disagree with that mantra, and I think it's one of the chivalests that gets startups in trouble. The whole point of technology is to find the elegant, scalable approach and the sooner you do that, the better off you're going to be. When you start to…”
David Sacks Jun 15, 2020 ▶ 33:38 20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
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Lemkin: Craft Ventures Allocating 80% of $3.3B Fund to B2B AI
“David Sachs did an opener with me. He said of crafts, 3.3 billion, they said, 80% is going into B to B AI.”
Jason Lemkin Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 11:35 Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
David Sacks: A Startup Burn Multiple Under 1.0 Is Amazingly Efficient
“If the burn multiple is less than one, which means, like, let's say you've got an early stage startup, and we've seen a few like this, where they're able to burn a million dollars or less to achieve a million dollars or more of net new ARR, I would qualify tha…”
David Sacks Jun 15, 2020 ▶ 24:13 20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
Disclosure
Craft Ventures Backed Bird for Its Ability to Build Durable Scooters
“Certainly in the case of Bird, what we saw in the early days It was a explosively growing service, and the thing that we gave them credit for was the ability to develop a higher quality scooter, because the original scooters were kind of these retail scooters …”
David Sacks Jun 15, 2020 ▶ 8:53 20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
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Lemkin: David Sacks has raised nearly $4B for Craft Ventures
“I mean, David Sachs, who I have a ton of respect for, you know, I, you know, he's raised almost four billion for Kraft since I started investing, right?”
Jason Lemkin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 10:00 Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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