Venture Round
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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6 statements about Venture Round, every show
Giffon: All major institutions are becoming timeline-native
“People are still very much underestimating how much policy gets dictated from the timeline, how much venture rounds are done on the timeline, how much businesses are built on the timeline. And I think increasingly everything will just become sort of timeline n…”
Lemkin: VCs Are No Longer Attempting Due Diligence
“Venture rounds are all getting done on Saturdays. Forget about no diligence being done two years ago. Now diligence isn't even being attempted.”
Larry Kim: Traditional venture debt diligence is barely less painful than equity.
“Months, months. And then they want to meet the founder and they want to like, you know, look at all your books and everything. Like, so it's just like slightly less painful than doing a bonafide like venture round.”
Sanchez: Raising venture capital forces founders to confront internal insecurities
“We have these insecurities, and I will tell you that going through a venture round forces you to overcome those.”
Participating in venture rounds is positive-sum, but leading is zero-sum
“When you participate, you're playing a positive sum game. When you lead, you're playing a zero sum game.”