Price

topic on 14 shows · 23 statements across 22 episodes

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23 statements about Price, every show

PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Partly supported
Loiacono: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Adjust Drug Prices Only in January and July
“So on the manufacturing side, we change price twice a year. You could set a clock to it, January and July.”
AJ Loiacono Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 9:56 He spent $0 on marketing—raised $400M at $3.25B valuation | Judi Health
High frontier AI model prices are driving the plateau in adoption
“And to me, the only explanation has to be price, right? Like it's just too expensive to use the frontier models.”
Dave Morin May 29, 2026 ▶ 18:21 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
20VC Insight
Peter Fenton: Investment price is the litmus test for conviction
“I remember he told me that price is a litmus test for your conviction.”
Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 1:35 Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Taneja: VCs blame price when they actually lack investment conviction
“So if it's, if money's all made and what's better than we thought, like, you know, using price to pass, I tell you people, investors use price as a reason to pass because they couldn't gain conviction elsewhere. And it still makes them sound pragmatic.”
Hemant Taneja Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 1:01:09 General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Opinion
Casado: Strong venture returns suggest startup entry prices are too low
“The fact that we get the returns we do suggests the prices are too low.”
Martin Casado Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 36:17 Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
Weisbrot: Raising prices is much easier than lowering costs
“It's much easier to raise your price than to lower your cost.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 29:33 Your Business Isn't Stagnating, Your Mindset Is (Live Coaching)
Weisbrot: Businesses should raise prices until customers say no
“Keep raising your prices until people say no.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 30:45 Your Business Isn't Stagnating, Your Mindset Is (Live Coaching)
CATALYST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Piper: Capacity incentive prices can only go up across US power markets
“If you think about reducing those assessments of reliability contribution, but increasing your planning reserve targets, you're saying, well, we want more, but what generators bring is less then You know, it's a very strong signal to bring new generation to ma…”
Steve Piper Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 31:20 PJM and the capacity crunch
Deng: Uber's actual product was price and ETA, not app pixels
“Really like the price and the ETA at Uber was the product.”
Peter Deng Jun 22, 2025 ▶ 21:46 From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
TBPN Insight
Bartlett: LP prisoner's dilemma keeps private startup prices elevated
“Now we're at this prisoner's dilemma where it would be theoretically a great time for everyone to lean in if other people backed out because then prices would depress, but everyone's staying in. And so it's actually leading to prices staying elevated”
Logan Bartlett Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 9:20 Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
98% of hotel customers care only about getting the best price
“98% of customers, all they care about, the only thing they care about is getting the best price, right?”
Hussein Fazal Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 14:24 He got rejected by 50 VCs & had 4 months of runway—3 years later, he's at $150M ARR & profitable.... · PMF Show
20VC Insight
Plank: Scaling companies fail to raise prices until finding friction
“The big mistake that people make as they transition to the next phase is people don't increase price into a point where they find friction.”
Matt Plank Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 0:12 Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ACQUIRED Assertion Partly supported
Khosrowshahi: Year-over-year Uber ride prices are down as supply outpaces demand
“Now, in this environment, where we are adding supply faster than demand because the supply is really coming into the marketplace, prices in Uber now, year on year, are down.”
Dara Khosrowshahi Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 35:04 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
Beshore: Lower purchase multiples give buyers the luxury of time
“If you pay a ton for a business, the expectations are sky high. You've got to start doing a lot of things to generate that return. If you pay a little bit less expectations can be lower and you can take your time.”
Brent Beshore Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 16:59 Mastering Micro Private Equity: Brent Beshore's Strategy for Wealth Generation
20VC Insight
Stebbings: Do not lose the ideal investor over valuation
“If the chosen partner is slightly lower, just take it. Do not lose the right partner because of a small percentage difference. In price or size of round.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 21, 2022 ▶ 19:52 20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News
Forman: Price is rarely a leading indicator of fundamental progress in crypto
“Price is rarely like a leading indicator for fundamental progress and traction.”
Ben Forman Jun 20, 2022 ▶ 1:10:15 Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
ALL-IN Insight
Friedberg: Consumable and durable goods prices rarely drop after inflating
“And you raise your prices. You're not often going back and dropping your prices again. And you know, you have to have a catch up effect. For income and savings to make up for the increment in pricing. And that's really, you know, a key driver right now that th…”
David Friedberg Apr 1, 2022 ▶ 20:03 E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
Kenneth Cole: Consumers buy value rather than price
“I don't think people buy price. They buy value, and people learned a long time ago, you pay a dollar for something, you never wear it, you pay too much.”
Kenneth Cole Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 1:04:36 Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
ALL-IN Prediction Held up
Chamath: Post-lockdown consumer spending and COVID stimulus will trigger inflation
“The scary thing about all of this is if any of that stuff actually comes to pass, we're going to see inflation. And the reason is because if you start going out and spending a bunch of money on tickets and vacations and flights and this and that and pumping mo…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 31:26 E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
Market systems fail on vital issues that cannot have price mechanisms
“And the reason it's not true is because the market-based system for it to work, it needs prices. And the most important things that we could allocate attention to don't have prices, and more importantly, cannot have prices. There is no system that you could co…”
Albert Wenger Jun 17, 2020 ▶ 24:50 Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yanowitz: Bitcoin will double if $400M monthly inflow continues post-halving
“If the, what if four hundred million continues to pump into the system, then should double the price.”
Jason Yanowitz Apr 15, 2020 ▶ 57:20 New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
20VC Insight
Viswanathan: Investors should lean in on price for elite founders
“What I have learned in my career is don't be afraid to lean in more and more on price for the elite CEOs, elite founders, and elite companies.”
Ravi Viswanathan Apr 6, 2020 ▶ 16:47 20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
20VC Insight
Consumer Travelers Only Care About Price, Not UI Speed or Design
“Consumer travelers only travel once or twice a year, and so they don't care about booking fast and having a nice UI. They only care about price.”
Steve Huffman Oct 25, 2019 ▶ 9:32 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively

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