Venture Backing
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Venture Backing, every show
Coogan: VPNs are un-fundable due to massive marketing costs
“It's not VPNs are not suitable for venture backing. Typically it's all marketing. That's the entire expense is just getting people install the VPN.”
Simkhai: Grindr avoided VC to not answer to straight corporate investors
“And I felt that if I would take venture backing
I would essentially become a monkey to them, and that I would need to essentially work for them.
And a lot of them were, you know, straight men who I felt like didn't understand my business, and you know, I didn'…”