small businesses

7 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Nathaniel Gleicher · across every show →

Everything said about small businesses, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Gleicher: The statistic that 60% of cyberattacked small businesses fail is baseless
“There's a statistic that's been going around. It was used in a couple of cybersecurity bills recently. It was used on the Hill. And the statistic is, 60% of small businesses that get targeted with a cyber attack go out of business within six months. And in cas…”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:28 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Insight
London: Accountant trust drives small business software adoption
“Accountants are a big part of the decision Process for small businesses often. And we, if accountants believe in gusto, then that can help their small businesses also believe in us.”
Tomer London Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 13:24 How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
Dec 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schmidt: Next PE era involves tech-automated small businesses acquiring rivals
“I see, like, the next evolution of private equity being possible where small businesses can leverage technology to basically, like, automate parts of their services organization and then go and use a better business model to acquire other small businesses.”
Joe Schmidt Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 0:15 AI-Powered Acquisitions: A New Playbook
Sep 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says a 15% tariff would wipe out small business margins
“You increase, you know, from a two and a half percent average tariff to a 15% tariff, that's their profit margin, and it's gone.”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 55:13 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Jul 29, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Overtoom: Hundreds of thousands of small practices handle billing manually
“There are, like, hundreds of thousands of these small businesses that literally, like, do this all by hand.”
Stein Overtoom Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 3:32 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
Jul 29, 2026
Insight
Overtoom: All small businesses share the exact same core administrative workflows
“All small businesses at an abstract level, Like have a system of record they need to read and write into. They all have customers in doctor offices. They happen to be patients, but it's interacting and transacting around payments. You need to book appointments…”
Stein Overtoom Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 35:10 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
Jul 29, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Overtoom: 70% of small US healthcare practices are still paid on paper
“I think the stats are 70% are still paid on paper. And it's going through this massive, like, digitization revolution right now, because federal inflection point, that's regulatory.”
Stein Overtoom Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 53:54 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
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