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Wand: Not a single top VC fund truly understands Hippo's business
“There's not a single top fund that truly understands what the hell am I doing?”
Wand: Startups must gain distribution faster than incumbents achieve innovation
“Because in essence, the fight that you have of incumbents versus startup is a startup needs to reach the distribution faster than an incumbent can reach the innovation.”
Wand: Remote work creates a mercenary culture and increases employee turnover
“This remote work environment creates a bit of a mercenary environment because you never built any relationship with the a person. You never infused the culture of the company. So it's not a really big problem for them to leave and to move.”
Asaf Wand: Remote Work Inhibits Creativity and Complex Problem-Solving
“I think it's very, very difficult to do creative things and solve hard problems. The actual amount of work that's done on some silos is probably fine for engineers. They still close more tickets. Potentially they don't have commute. Maybe it's effective, but t…”
Wand: Fundraising time pressure favors VCs, so founders should run blitzes
“The time value is always in the benefits of the fund and not of the founder, and because of that, I think when you're doing a fundraising, it needs to be a condensed blitz and have 20, 30 meetings in that week, see what's going on, push it to the next level.”
Wand: Strategic corporate investment dramatically increases BD partnership success rates
“If you're having them as a strategic investor with a very specific deliverables, then the likelihood and the chance of these deals succeed are, I don't know, a hundred times more than you thought before.”
Stebbings: Proptech leaders will build hundreds of billions in enterprise value
“These founders are all absolute OGs of the financial real estate market, building companies that I believe will represent hundreds of billions of dollars in enterprise value over the coming years”
Wallace: Fifth Wall invested in Hippo before finishing its first fund
“We hadn't even raised our fund. And the soft was like, you need to invest in our business. And I was like, I don't even have a fund yet. I don't know how I'm possibly going to do that. But ultimately we did.”