Lowercase Capital

“For a brief moment, we had, like, a side fund that we were putting together with Kobe, and we made, like, two investments. It was like, one of them was, ended up being Stripe out of that fund”

“I would say it would be lowercase Chris Saka's fund. I put, you know, a little check in there and got four million out like, 25,000 turned into four million, so it was a legendary fund. I think it was like ten million and returned like 1.5000000000 or somethin…”

“The first few deals I did with my own individual money once I got out as an investor were garbage because they would come pitch me and I'm like, oh, I know how I can make this better because that's what I was used to doing at Google was just making things bett…”

“When I retired lowercase, it was probably the most bankable I was. We walked away. Crystal and I retired it in 2016 to just say, This doesn't feel as compelling anymore for us personally. We don't love the impact we're having.”

“Ended up working for Chris Saka and lowercase capital while I was in business school off of a cold email to Chris and then diligently annoying and following up with him until he caved and gave me some work to do basically.”

“Reputation is the number one currency as an investor that you have control over. The other one obviously is your track record, but you and I both know that To a certain extent that's out of the investor's control. You know, we can hopefully select great founde…”

“At the height of lowercase, we were managing six billion dollars, and we were three people.”

“I think we're six people now managing, you know, between the outside money and inside money over a billion dollars. At the height of lowercase, we were managing six billion dollars and we were three people.”

“That's one of the reasons I quit for a while. Was I worried that, you know, the stage of life I was in, I wasn't going to be able to fucking bring it. I wasn't going to be able to as obsessive as you need to be to succeed in this business and this industry and…”

“Lowercase Capital became one of the, if not the top-performing fund of all time”

“Chris Saka Had his famous offsite over in Truckee, north of San Francisco, in ski country, where he would sequester these entrepreneurs for like three days, living in his home, and all they would do was these deep dives.”

“At Lowercase, Matt manages a portfolio of over 40 investments.”

“I don't think the VC of today can hang behind a Sand Hill Road address anymore, and pretend like that brand will become, or maintain its supremacy In this ecosystem.”

“Product Hunt is a community I've been a huge supporter of, like you, and sort of it's a, it's an ecosystem that I love, and it turned out to be a really important one for early stage venture, because that's where you find a bunch of really interesting companie…”

“Follow on funding is something that today because of the fundraising environment and cheap and cheap access to capital, You're seeing perhaps a little too much exuberance in terms of like the fall on financing. So that, that signal has gotten a little bit mudd…”

“That's where we see most of our high profile, our most successful deal flow comes from the existing portfolio and entrepreneurs that even entrepreneurs that we pass on that that send us deals.”

“What you're going to see us try to do over the next few years is build out scalable versions of that, that help, help portfolio companies from like, how do we get a first few thousand beta testers on our platform playing with a product prior to release?”

“The product called lowercase apple, which is just a text message group that anybody can subscribe to, and get products every week or two. That are still in early test flight mode that are generally alphas or betas of products.”

“Watched him walk away from tens of millions of dollars repeatedly because he didn't feel right about, and it felt icky to him in that investment. Actually, that's the only, like, that's the only red flag no black ball that we have is if an investment makes us …”

“Mob Crush, live streaming, mobile games. We did the seed there, but we followed on into another round of funding. We treat all of those following and pro rata opportunities. As a, as separate investments in, in terms of our thinking of whether to do them or no…”

“I think he's got the most successful fund ever with Lowercase's first fund.”