David Rogier
person on 3 shows · 14 statements across 2 episodes · said 16 times in 7 episodes since 2017
20VC 12 
Top Founders 3 
My First Million 1
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20VC 12Top Founders 3My First Million 1
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: HitRecord's Joseph Gordon-Levitt on How Show Business Prepared Him For Life As An Entrepreneur, What Founders Should Look For Most In Their Investor Base & Why The Current Ad Model of Social Is Harming The World's Creative Spirit
- 20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 778: SaaS: With $80M Raised, He Left Salesforce to Bring Finance Departments to The Cloud
- 776: TextingBase Shares Margins, Cap Table, Valuation, More
- 20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
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14 statements about David Rogier, every show
Michael Deering invested $500K in David Rogier before he had an idea
“And he basically invested half a million and told me to go think of an idea.”
A founder's single job is preventing cash exhaustion
“I have one job, and that job is to make sure that we never run out of money. The only thing that can kill a startup is running out of cash.”
Founders should double milestone cost and time estimates in startup planning
“And then I always times it by two, because however fast and efficient you think you're going to be, everything, when you actually work on it, just takes more time and just costs more.”
MasterClass raised $5 million prior to its public launch
“We had raised approximately five million before launch.”
Early-stage startups should rely on a single advisor to preserve speed
“One of the most important things at early stage is speed, and by asking five people for their thoughts and advice, they aren't going to give the same advice, so then you're going to spend a whole bunch of time, and you're going to have to debate it and think a…”
Rogier validated MasterClass demand using a fake website with 100 courses
“So what I decided to do was I created a fake website that had a hundred different online classes that I did not have. I paid a firm in Argentina, I think like I actually helped build the site. I hired some people on TaskRabbit to help write the class text inst…”
Signing early MasterClass instructors took up to 12 months
“That was hard. That probably took like eight to 12 months, and it was only possible because of that first half million.”
Pre-sending pitch decks has never yielded an investment for MasterClass
“I can't think of one case where I sent out a pitch deck before the pitch, and the person then wanted to actually invest.”
Investor Michael Dearing gave Rogier $500,000 to find a business idea
“Michael wrote me a check for about half a million bucks and told me to go think of an idea”
Rogier: MasterClass has raised at least approximately $50M in capital
“Approximately at least fifty million.”
Rogier: MasterClass headcount is 68 and will exceed 100 by year-end
“We're now at 68 and by the end of the year we'll be at over 100.”
Rogier: MasterClass instructors teach out of desire, not for the money
“If the instructors want to earn a lot of money, there are tons of options for them to go do. The instructors are teaching and doing this because they actually want to teach.”
Rogier: 50% to 80% of MasterClass students are first-time online learners
“About half to 80% of our students have never taken an online class before.”