Jason Mendelson
Co-Founder, Foundry Group. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Jason Mendelson is a co-founder of Foundry Group, an investment firm with portfolio investments like Fitbit and MakerBot. He also co-founded SRS Acquiom and previously served as General Counsel at Mobius Venture Capital.
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27said about them ↓ Everything Jason Mendelson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mendelson: 50% of VCs Hurt Entrepreneurs, Only 25% Help
“In my opinion, at least 50% of them hurt entrepreneurs and 25% of them don't do any good. There's only really a quarter of the VC firms that I've worked with that really help the”
Mendelson: Half of Board VCs Are Neither Respected Nor Transparent
“Just on the boards that I'm on, a good half of the VCs that I share these boards with, I don't respect. I don't think they're transparent.”
Mendelson: Claiming large startups must be in Silicon Valley is myopic arrogance
“And I think it's laughable that there are people on the coast and primarily in Silicon Valley who openly say you can't build a big business in the Silicon Valley. It is that myopic arrogance, which makes me, it makes me laugh because that gives us great opport…”
Mendelson: Venture capitalists are lemmings who retreat in downturns
“Venture capitalists in general are lemmings, and when the times are bad, they get out of the market.”
Mendelson: A thriving startup ecosystem requires a culture that respects failure
“More importantly, the pillar of having a culture of failure is super important. I'm from Detroit. And for many years, they had creative class, they had money, they had lawyers, they had people who could work there. They had great ideas, but they lacked the abi…”
Mendelson: Late-Stage Venture Investing Is Purely a Financial Exercise
“If we were late stage investors, totally different. It's a financial exercise at that point.”
Mendelson: Foundry Group's highest returns come from downturn investments
“Some of the best deals we've ever done were with entrepreneurs in a down period where no other VCs would invest in them. We were able to, you know, invest in these great companies because we were the only people out there writing checks, and we had outsized re…”
Mendelson: The Knot and WeddingWire are merely vendor lead-generation tools
“Right now you've got the knot, you've got wedding wires. All they are is lead gen machines for vendors.”
Mendelson: Foundry Group Does Not Employ PR or Marketing Staff
“We don't have a PR firm. We don't have a marketing person. Our marketing is every once in a while we lose our brains and put up a music video or write a book.”
Mendelson: Foundry Group Operates With Four Partners and Zero Associates
“There's four partners and there's no associates.”
Mendelson: Foundry Group Will Never Chase Investment Deals on Price
“We're not going to chase deals on price. We're not going to chase deals because of some other term sheet.”
Foundry Group maintains a steady investment pace regardless of market cycles
“We at Founder Group, we've been together 20 years as a team almost, and we consistently invest in the same number of deals every year because we want to be time diversified, and we don't care if the times are great or horrible.”
Mendelson: Pre-board materials transform board meetings into strategy sessions
“When you give me information ahead of time, you as the entrepreneur should hold me accountable that I've read everything. I've digested everything. If I have any questions, I ask before the board meeting so that the board meeting becomes a strategy meeting, no…”
The other half of the tape: Jason Mendelson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 27 times in 6 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
- 20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 15 mentions in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 5 mentions in 1 episode
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