Scott Kupor
19 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Scott Kupor · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019
Kupor: Startups have time to fix early underpricing mistakes
“The bad news about setting pricing in a market is it's really hard and it takes a long time to actually set the price in the market. The good news is it takes a long time. So, you know, if you enter at too low of a price point, like it takes a long time for th…”
Jun 23, 2019 neutral
Jun 23, 2019 negative
Kupor: Founders overlook anti-dilution terms despite severe down-round risks
“So this is a term that I think most people don't spend a lot of attention on but can actually have very material economic consequences Particularly in cases where the company may not be performing as well as could be expected.”
Jun 23, 2019 neutral
Jun 23, 2019 negative
Kupor: Participating Liquidation Preferences Are Rare in Silicon Valley Deals
“Now, participating is slightly different, and it's actually much more advantageous to the venture capitalist, and quite frankly, deleterious for the entrepreneur. We generally do not see it very often, particularly in Silicon Valley, but it's good for you to u…”
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Oct 2, 2025
Kupor: Federal workforce will shrink by 300,000 employees due to DOGE
“We've done a lot of work over the course of this year, a lot of which was catalyzed by Elon and the Doge team. As a result, we expect probably that we'll end up with somewhere around 2.1 million employees at the end of the year, so roughly about a 300,000 redu…”
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Kupor: Excessive Federal Oversight Drives Government Agency Risk Aversion
“You've created this culture of oversight Which therefore then means, like, we should never take any risk because nobody wants to, like, see their department show up in a GAO report, basically. So we've just overdone this concept of risk as a way to actually, y…”
Oct 2, 2025
Kupor: Federal government started the year with 2.4 million civilian employees
“Just to kind of level set again for the organization, we've got about roughly, we started the year about 2.4 million civilian employees, so we don't have responsibility for uniformed military, but there's about 2.4 million civilian employees.”
Oct 2, 2025 positive
Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Kupor: Choosing between 40-year civil service or private careers is outdated
“This idea that at 22 years old, you have to decide, like, am I going to go be a forty-year career, you know, civil servant, or am I going to go be a forty-year private sector person, I just think that's an outdated mode of thinking of employment.”
Oct 2, 2025 positive
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Kupor: Many managers in federal tech organizations are non-technical
“A significant portion of people in technical organizations are not actually technical, and they're managing people who are technical, and therefore they're just not, quite frankly, able to provide career, career development, other things that happen.”
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Kupor: 99.7% of federal workers receive performance ratings of three or higher
“So fours and fives, so the very, very top, is roughly 65 to 70% of people get a four or five. 90, when you add threes, fours, and five, that's 99.7%, ok? So 99.7% are a three or higher. 0.3%, therefore, is a one or a two.”
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Kupor: Federal culture treats risk as binary while ignoring upside
“We've kind of just embedded in the culture, this idea that risk is like this pass fail thing. Like you either have risk or you don't have risk. And if you have risk, God forbid, like, you should ever go there, basically, and so that to me was like the most eye…”
Oct 2, 2025 neutral
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Oct 2, 2025 neutral
Kupor: Silicon Valley recruits resorted to using ChatGPT on their personal phones
“The people on my team who, you know, came from Silicon Valley who are working in my department, What they were doing was just, they would just, you know, on their personal phone, they were using ChatGPG to help them do stuff”