Jason Rosenthal

7 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jason Rosenthal · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rosenthal: Legacy media giants will not dominate virtual reality
“So I think if you look at any new medium, right. Be it the internet, or mobile games, or what have you. It's never been, ah, the companies that were dominant in the last form of entertainment or media that have become the leaders, ah, in the next form, and I t…”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:53 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Rosenthal: Lytro owed $4 million to suppliers upon taking over CEO role
“It turns out that for the first generation Lytro product that had already shipped, we owed an enormous amount of money to the tune of, I think about four million dollars to our suppliers who had pre-purchased all the parts and all the components needed for the…”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:42 a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rosenthal: Opsware early installs required physical server clones from HQ
“For the first over year of being in the software business after we've made the pivot the only way that you could install the software at a customer site was you had to bring along a server with you from our headquarters that was already running the software.”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:06 a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Rosenthal: Virtually every successful tech startup undergoes a pivot
“Really actually every startup is a pivot and it's along this big spectrum from tiny pivots that, that happened at the beginning to much harder times. Bigger ones. If we take most, if not all of the biggest, most successful tech companies that we think about to…”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:52 a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Rosenthal: Company culture only truly matters during existential crisis
“In a lot of ways, I mean, a culture doesn't matter that much when everything's going great. Culture matters a lot when the shit is at the fan and people, whether it's employees or customers are running for the exits.”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:33 a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Rosenthal: Lytro pitched 83 investors before securing a recapitalization round
“83 investors later. 83. I still have that spreadsheet. You know, we found an interested investor. We basically changed the cap table, radically reduced the valuation.”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:29 a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Rosenthal: Startups pivot away from disaster rather than toward certainty
“Very rarely at least in my experience, are you pivoting into something That you know is going to work or that you've got super high confidence in. You're mostly pivoting away from, you know, near certain disaster.”
Jason Rosenthal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:28 a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
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