startup founder

“From the perspective of the deals that we see, I think almost to a fault, everybody historically underestimates how much capital they will actually need to get to either, either the next milestone or to an exit.”

“You know, you should treat that as the type of information that you would tell anyone that you would tell an investor that you would, you know, use on a sales call that, you know, frankly, that you would tell a competitor. So you don't want to give out the ver…”

“I mean, honestly, I think that one of the challenges is, is that the situations that corporate development teams are involved in tend to be sort of very high stress, very, very high emotion. And so sort of people have a lot of stories that bounce around the ma…”

“When you're at this kind of high-velocity hiring rate I think people forget about what's my strategy and what direction am I pointing at, because they're solving for very short-term needs of that recruitment, initial recruitment process, and that candidate say…”

“And this is one of the mistakes I see over and over again with startup founders, is that when they're small, it feels like they're all artists. They do a great job of building an org, And then suddenly the org is not what they're comfortable with or familiar w…”

“I've seen posts on LinkedIn from startup founders that maybe don't have a background in coding and they're basically advocating for removing the code review check because they say, well, look, I just generated this whole program and I submitted it to my team a…”

“I will regularly talk to three, five, ten-person startup founders that, that self-report they might be getting somewhere on the order of, like, three to five to 10 X productivity improvements.”

“We've seen it so many times where somebody gets to the penthouse, and they're like, oh, I want to do a new thing. But they don't want to go all the way down to the ground floor, and start at the bottom, fucking putting the building together. Okay, now you're i…”