David Hornik

Everything David Hornik said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Opinion

Hornik: Peter Thiel's 20 Under 20 fellowship is "bullshit"

“I think it's bullshit.”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 20:23 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated

David Hornik: Google is best positioned to become the first $1T company

“I think that I think that Google is in the best position to do it today.”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 21:48 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

20VC Opinion

Hornik: Legal training is a terrible asset for venture capitalists

“Well, largely venture, sorry, lawyers are trained to be to be very conservative, right? They're, the training is to sit, to find all of the problems that one might run into, and to try and you know, worry about those things, and not say to yourself, what are t…”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 5:36 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

20VC Insight

Hornik: Big tech giants are slowly morphing into the same company

“I think that if you look at what Amazon is doing, what Google is doing, what Facebook is doing, they all are slowly but surely, and in many ways Apple, they're all slowly but surely morphing into the same company.”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 21:15 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

20VC Insight

Hornik: Starting a startup is unreasonable and extraordinarily unlikely to succeed

“Now, the reality is that, of course, it's completely unreasonable to start a startup. They're extraordinarily hard. It's extraordinarily unlikely they succeed.”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 4:38 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

20VC Disclosure

Hornik: August Capital investments Ebates, Zulily, and Splunk were multi-billion-dollar exits

“Valuable investments that, that we have made in, you know, the Ebates or Zulily or Splunk were all multi-billion dollar outcomes.”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 11:58 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

20VC Insight

Hornik: Venture funds require billion-dollar addressable markets because startups capture small fractions

“You really need to have markets that that, that span billion dollars of available opportunity, because in all likelihood, you're going to get small fractions of those markets, and it's incumbent upon you to then you know, eek, eek out your hundreds of millions…”

David Hornik Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 12:43 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

The other half of the tape: David Hornik's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 4 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 2Matthew McCall 1Jason Lemkin 1

Statements about David Hornik, by other people (1)

20VC Assertion Supported

David Hornik created the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog

“David created the first ever venture capital blog, Venture Blog, and he also lectures at Harvard Law School, where he teaches entrepreneurship and venture capital.”

Harry Stebbings Jan 18, 2015 ▶ 0:32 20 VC 004: David Hornik on the Magic of Stanford and Startups

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Founding Partner, Lobby Capital	1	7	—	full record on 20VC →