Sponsors
topic on 6 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
My First Million 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Capital Allocators 
Top Founders 
20VC
11 statements about Sponsors, every show
Ripley: LP-GP alignment peaks during a sponsor's Fund I era
“You're never more aligned with a sponsor than you are in that fund one era when they want to have that stamp.”
Charles: PE buyers are now suspicious of assets sold without continuation vehicles
“Well, now, if I'm a sponsor, and I'm getting a book from another sponsor, and they're not CV-ing it, I'm a little suspicious.”
A B2B Newsletter With 2,000 C-Suite Subscribers Is a Home Run
“If you have 2000 subscribers and they're all C-suite execs, you hit a home run. Sponsors are desperate to get in front of these decision makers.”
Diversified Collateral Unlocks Cheaper Credit for Private Equity Sponsors
“By providing a diversified portfolio as collateral, sponsors can access cheaper credit for their companies.”
Ballis: Sponsors favor private credit for execution certainty and zero term flex
“One thing that sponsors love about the private credit space is that there's certainty. They're not syndicated. It's not one of the big banks looking to syndicate out the loan. They buy the deal. The private credit providers, they're the ones that are going to …”
Lemkin: SaaStr Has $30M in 2022 Sponsorships, Targeting $50M Next Year
“We have thirty million of sponsors at Sastra this year, fifty million next year. One, we have a tiny sales team. One of our sales guys has done 23 and a half million of that in two and a half years.”
Sam Parr: Sponsors pay a premium to reach underserved communities
“Whenever you have like an underserved community, like sponsors definitely are willing to pay more.”
Simo: Women Need Career Sponsors Who Open Doors, Not Just Mentors
“I don't think mentors are That's critical. I think sponsors are, and there's a very big difference there. I mean, mentors are the kind of people who sit down with you, have coffee, give you some really, really great advice, and kind of walk away. Sponsors are …”
Sternlicht: Desperate SPAC sponsors will cut promotes by 25% to 75%
“The outcome of this will be as the two year anniversary of those SPACs births comes around, they would get desperate and they will start cutting their promotes 25, 50, 75%, just so they don't lose the sponsor equity capital they put up. So it's going to be a b…”
Altshuler: Use early sponsor payments to fund conference expenses
“Incentivizing sponsors to sign up early and pay early is imperative because you want to pay for the conference out of conference revenues. You don't want to go into pocket.”