Mark Mullen
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Mullen: VC Funds Should Be Required to Publish Quarterly Returns Publicly
“I wish everybody would have to post their returns publicly every quarter. Competition. Let's see what everybody, let's see the hands people are playing. You know, this business is very opaque, right? You can be a VC and never have a return for like 10 years.”
Mullen: Anyone Can Do VC; the Industry Is Put on a Pedestal
“Oh, that anybody can do this job. I mean I think VC has, is up on this pedestal in some ways, and that it's, there's some sort of secret key to unlock the door to become a VC, and I think you can do it from any type of position.”
Mullen's First Angel Investment Generated a 40x Return via Warrants
“My first investment as an angel, which was never called that, as you know, until later on in life, was in... And they needed 10,000 dollars for a server to start their ISP, right? The web hosting company. And I gave them the 10,000, and then they paid me 15% i…”
Mullen: Series A Rounds Expanded to $20M on $80M Pre-Money
“What's interesting, what you're saying, though, is valuations have jumped, as we all know, and also the amount of capital the A firm is putting in. So where the A round three years ago should be six at 24, it's now 20 at 80, like you're saying.”
Mark Mullen Turned Down Investing in Honey Twice
“I met Sean Radd from Tinder, and I met the guys from Honey. And I turned down honey twice.”
Bonfire Ventures No Longer Commits to Investments in First Meetings
“We don't do that anymore. It's really hard, right? And especially since I have a team, I can't just walk in and go, yeah, we're going to invest in this company. We need to really talk about it, get through it, understand the pluses and minuses, get people's op…”
Mullen Committed to Scopely and The Trade Desk in First Meetings
“When I first met Walter Driver from Scopely or Jeff Green from the Trade Desk, I invested in the first meeting. I committed to them in that first meeting.”
Mullen Went Negative Cash to Buy Stocks and Crypto in March 2020
“And for the first time ever last March, I went negative cash and I went big into the market and big into crypto.”