Everything Hardi Meybaum said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hardi Meybaum Found Silicon Valley Talent Quality Disappointing During Early Fundraising
“Valley was not that much better. I would say it was even worse in that sense that I met a lot of people there, but I thought that the quality of the people were not great.”
Investors Can Assess a Founder's Drive Within Two Minutes, Claims Meybaum
“Literally, it takes two minutes to sit with a founder and you can see that drive or not.”
MBA and Junior VC Founders Consistently Failed to Compete With GrabCAD
“I see many times where there were MBAs, junior associated VCs, and coming to try to compete with us, but they always quickly failed after some great original boss.”
Every VC in London, Boston, and Silicon Valley Initially Rejected GrabCAD
“I met a lot of other VCs in Silicon Valley, and every single VC turned me down, and not only Boston, not only Silicon Valley, but also everyone in London”
Venture Capital Lacks Feedback Loops Due to Five-to-Seven Year Deal Cycles
“There's just no feedback loop in, in VC. You don't know if you're good at your job because, okay, you can measure yourself if you're doing deals, but you just don't know if those deals become good till five, six, seven years. And you need to do a lot of work w…”
Thesis-Driven Sourcing Builds Pattern Recognition Faster Than Horizontal Evaluation
“I've started to select very specific fields where I'm going in, instead of being very horizontal and seeing everything that comes into the door, I'm, I've become very thesis driven. So I go and look very specific vectors and I try to go and find every single c…”
Matrix Partners Invested in YC's SketchDeck Because Meybaum Needed the Product
“I have two investments that I've done recently that are not public yet, but I will still mention this, the SketchTech deal. It's a YC company that I spoke to earlier, and I said yes because I would have used that product. I would love to have that product when…”
GrabCAD Was Profitable From Day One, Says Founder Hardi Meybaum
“We were actually profitable From the day one”
GrabCAD's Design Library Reached Over Three Million Daily Active Engineers
“We built this massive library that has now more than three million engineers using every day that are uploading and downloading designs and reusing each other's designs”
Hardi Meybaum Stayed in a $50 Motel During GrabCAD Seed Fundraising
“We ended up staying in a mortal that cost 50 dollars a night, and it was hour and a half from Boston”
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