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Bad actors harm secondary markets by marketing fake startup access
“I think the problem is, you know, it's secondary markets, SPVs, they've just become, Too annoying and aggravating in the market to founders. And someone else is basically like, I don't want you marketing my stock. My, and I want to be the one who's figuring ou…”
Negative signaling from institutional seed investments is obsolete
“Everyone used to make this argument in the seed world, like, oh, there's negative signaling if you let an institution in, in there, and I think that's kind of out the window, As well, because for the right companies, like everybody's getting preempted and the …”
European founders have more grit than Bay Area founders
“There's kind of more grit to be a great entrepreneur in Europe than let's say in the Bay area where, you know, it's not that it's not incredibly hard to get into YC and just be a founder. I think in Europe, it's always been a lot harder.”
ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski is an outlier founder like Jeff Bezos
“The one company that I've really admired and, you know as the kind of like outlier entrepreneurs, we, in my history going back, like you look at the companies that became great, you know, when I was early days of client, there was like, you know Jeff Bezos and…”