Crypto Startups
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
4 statements about Crypto Startups, every show
Dixon: a16z sees as many top founders in crypto as in AI
“I think that the you know, it's to me, if you sort of compare at our firm, so at the, you know, if you compare crypto to, you know, I don't know, SaaS, or like all the other kind of, you know, or machine learning, AI startups I'd say it's at least as many, lik…”
$60M seed valuation caps put undue pressure on teams and degrade product
“When you see projects raising at 60 caps in seed rounds, it starts to make you question what's going on, and what it does in terms of the employees is it puts, I think, a lot of undue pressure on individual employees to ship products faster than they probably …”
Xie: Raising too much capital makes crypto startup teams idle
“I would likely not invest in teams that kind of have this thinking, to be honest. I really like that the teams that are raising money, the amount that they actually need to build this product, because I think that in the end, if you raise Too much money that y…”
2018 crypto startups secured nine-figure valuations based solely on white papers
“And then what's different though, from ad tech is that, and it makes it even harder is that you're often investing in a white paper or a deck. There's no code or traction that you get to invest behind. The company often has, you know, over a hundred million do…”