Fifty Years
fund on 2 shows · 6 statements across 1 episodes · said 18 times in 8 episodes since 2017
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20VC 17
No Priors 1
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
- 20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- 20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
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Bannon: The Friedman Doctrine is one of history's most dangerous economic ideas
“We think it's actually one of the most wrongheaded and probably dangerous doctrines in the history of the world, and I know it sounds a little Strange to say that an economic doctrine is very dangerous, but we think it's allowed a lot of businesses to pursue p…”
Bannon: Solving societal problems gives startups a systemic competitive advantage
“I believe you can. And so, we get this question a lot, and one of, I think, the analogies that I like to give is, at some point, people thought the transition to the cloud was going to be a really big deal, and that cloud-based companies would have very real a…”
Bannon: Fifty Years requires a clear path to $1B in revenue
“Our sort of like very high level filters are we want founders that are interested in building billion dollar businesses that have positive impact. Then we want to see ourselves a path to a billion dollars in revenue. And then we want to see ourselves the path …”
Bannon: Synthetic biology seed costs now match standard SaaS seed budgets
“There have been a number of changes over the last five years that actually allow you to get from idea to prototype product on the same amount of money you would need to raise for a seed round if you're raising for a SaaS company, right?”
Bannon: Deep tech startups should shift to debt after three equity rounds
“So almost every single deep tech company that we've invested in has a clear path to growing off of equity for maybe three rounds, and then growing off of project or debt financing for the rest of their life.”