Bill Janeway
10 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2019 4 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Janeway: Non-traditional late-stage tech investments will end in painful correction
“Now, when you see investors, hedge funds, mutual funds, paying premium prices, To buy illiquidity, to buy securities with no liquidity and with no governance rights. In the private market. The only thing you know is when it ends, it will end painfully.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Janeway: Low launch costs make spray-and-pray seed investing rational
“This means, on the one hand, a step function increase in the number of startups, in the number of Darwinian hopeful monsters. Most of which will fail. Most of which will fail Pretty fast, and without costing an enormous amount of money, so that at the front en…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Janeway: I Prefer Founders Who Survived Failed Startups or Corporate Crisis
“Well, the first way I actually begin is by looking at the biographies, of course. I have a heavy propensity for people who have survived failed startups, near-death experiences of big companies, and along the way have demonstrated some degree of creative disci…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Janeway: Cloud and open source drop software launch costs to near zero
“Open source software, web services from the cloud, which means that the cost in terms of time and money of launching a new service Has declined asymptotically to zero. Not building it out into a full business, but launching it.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Janeway: Positive cash flow frees founders from capital market dependence
“Positive cash flow from operations means that you, the entrepreneur, the venture capitalist, Own options. You own the options about whether to sell or not sell, whether to raise more money or not raise more money. You're not a prisoner of the capital markets.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Janeway: Billions wasted in mid-2000s VC nanotech and cleantech investments
“Back in the mid-aughties some billions of dollars were wasted in venture guys investing in nanotechnology. Venture guys investing in science for ultimately Clean tech opportunities, but that were way upstream, that took much too long, much too much money, and …”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Janeway: Venture capital functions as distributed R&D for incumbent corporations
“Well, what I'm saying is that because getting public is so difficult and so rare for venture-backed tech companies that, practically speaking, we should be thinking about that what we're doing is funding distributed research and development for big companies.”