Peers
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Lenny's Podcast
My First Million
Capital Allocators
4 statements about Peers, every show
Moore: Pragmatic enterprise buyers choose what their peers buy
“And the reason, the mechanism behind all that logic is that pragmatic people buy what they see their peers are buying.”
Larson: Holding peers to high standards often gets talented workers labeled combative
“I see a lot of people who are incredibly talented, but they try to hold their peers to a high standard, and then they're viewed as like combative or difficult to work with.”
Sean Puri: Founders massively overrate mentors and underrate peer networks
“Basically I think most people massively overrate the idea of a mentor. Cause I think it sounds like the easy button. It's like, man, I wish that there was just some genius who knew everything and had done everything who could just tell me what to do and solve …”
Institutional foundations are experiencing unusually long venture capital liquidity tails
“One of the things that's happening to a lot of our peers that we've been able to watch is that they haven't been getting the money back from their venture capital managers as fast as they thought they were. So those tails are much longer.”