Venture Community
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Younis: Venture community generally tends not to be very technical
“And I think the venture community, generally speaking, tends to be not very technical for them. If you just say, if we solve this thing, it's going to be a lot of money. That's kind of enough for them.”
Chamath: SEC will reject crypto ETFs and target VCs and staking services
“And so they're coming down hard and they're going to go and systematically dismantle the largest actors and they're going to go through the value chain. So I think the obvious place that they're looking now or. The exchanges, they'll look at the custodial serv…”
Radfar: Non-venture founders are in many ways more impressive than VC-backed founders
“And oftentimes I think there's a cognitive bias in the venture community to assume that venture backed founders are like the top one percent, right? Honestly, I think these founders are more impressive in many ways.”
Levine: Y Combinator founders' skepticism toward VCs is often merited
“I think the default posture of YC companies and founders is a little bit of fun, fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the venture community, which I think is merited in some cases”
Cohen: Regulated corporations fail when building non-core technology internally
“I think companies get in trouble when they try to do things That should happen externally, internally. And what I mean by that is I think there are certain types of talent that have no desire to work inside an organization that has 40,000 people, that's highly…”
Coates: SaaS payback periods exceeding two years raise red flags for VCs
“Well, if you look at like what the market considers a red flag, I think if you talk to the venture community and the guys who really know this stuff, you know, they're going to flag a payback period. That's like greater than two years as, you know, probably a …”
Maqubela: VCs do not need every good deal, only good deals
“You don't have to do every good deal. You just have to only do good deals.”
Rojas: Venture community is open and friendly, not cutthroat
“I think one of the things that I, I've been pleasantly surprised by is how open and friendly other people in the community, the venture community are... I think there's maybe this stereotype that of feces is very kind of cutthroat and always trying to You know…”