West Coast

“A mast event can happen as infrequently as once or twice a decade, and it's not, like, the whole species of, like, dug fur across the West Coast, like, all goes at once in a mast event.”

“I think the, getting into the privates is usually like, for me, a lot, a really bad sign for almost every fund because it's, as tantalizing as private companies are, there is a whole group of people on the West Coast who are much better at that than the guys o…”

“There's actually more fires on the East Coast than there are in the West, just from a quantity perspective.”

“Eight of 10, eight of 10, and seven of the eight are West Coast technology venture backed companies.”

“Notions ethos probably more like a east coast rather than west coast. So somewhere in between, right? It's more direct.”

“In the early days when I joined actually my first CRO, my first CMO were actually on the West coast because I couldn't find enough depth and experience in New York city.”

“The kind of risk you take in finance is really, really, really high probability of success and low return. Around the West Coast, it's sort of the opposite.”

“If you take 10 A players, In Boston, out of those 10 A players, maybe two of them will be in tech, and the other eight will be in financial services, or in pharma, or biotech, or blah, blah, blah. And on the West Coast, you know, out of the 10 A players, nine …”

“Like I felt that the West Coast, I was unable to really tap into significant businesses that could use my product and make the most of it.”

“Really the publishing and content business, the center of gravity is shifted dramatically to the west coast because that's where access to content is being made available on platforms like Facebook and Snapchat and others.”

“Active Series A funds, which for us meant funds that have done at least five Series A investments in the last three years. And we looked at West Coast versus New York versus Europe. West Coast, I think that's something like a 140 active Series A funds. New Yor…”

“So we now with the fund, we do actually done zero investments in the West coast.”

“I think the first one is that there are very few European acquirers. So you know, a lot of these potential acquirers are all, you know, based, based on the West Coast, pretty much. If you're a pure tech company, and I think there's, you know, not that many com…”

“The time in a company's life when they're getting a higher valuation is moving earlier and earlier on the west coast. And that's sort of leading to this dynamic where both as founders and as investors, you're sort of picking the winner in a space earlier. And …”

“Now, Betaworks has done about 25, maybe 30% of its investments historically have been on the West Coast with the majority of those being pretty much in San Francisco, a handful in Silicon Valley.”

“Having vested in guilt when it was just three people, I can promise you could not have built that company to the same degree of success in the West Coast, because, you know, all of the fashion brands are in New York, all of the great merchandising talent, desi…”