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Jeff Bussgang

General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Jeff Bussgang is a co-founder and General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Previously, he served on the early executive team at Open Market.

What they said6 Shows1

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

Y COMBINATOR Insight

MBAs Are Prone to Over-Researching Compared to Technical Founders

“I think it's just that MBAs, because of their nature, may be more likely to fall into the spinning too much research time mistake as compared to a tech founder who's going to be more likely to jump right in and build something.”

Jeff Bussgang Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 5:43 How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Insight

Universities Exist for Pedagogy, Not Creating Billion-Dollar Startups

“The purpose of the university. It's not to create billion dollar startups. It's to have a pedagogical experience for their students”

Jeff Bussgang Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 20:06 How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Partly supported

Harvard Business School Launched Its First Student Coding Club in 2017

“This year, for the first time, HBS started a club called HBS Coders. There's been sales clubs, there's been marketing clubs, there's been fashion clubs for years and years and years, but there's never been a coders club until this year.”

Jeff Bussgang Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 9:30 How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated

Only 4 to 5 of 100 HBS Entrepreneurship MBAs Can Code

“In my class of a hundred students this year, and this is an entrepreneurship class for second year MBAs, the most, ah, ardent entrepreneur bound students take. Only, only four or five can write code out of a hundred.”

Jeff Bussgang Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 12:18 How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated

Many MBAs Return to Startups at Their Pre-MBA Job Level

“In fact, I have a lot of my students who come from startup land and go back into startup land at the same level that they left after two years of spending a hundred something thousand dollars on their MBA program.”

Jeff Bussgang Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 24:30 How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported

Cloudflare, Rent the Runway, and Earnest Were Founded by HBS Alumni

“Whether it's a cloud flare or rent the runway. Or in earnest all three of whom were founded recently by Harvard Business School alums.”

Jeff Bussgang Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 5:10 How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners	1	6	50% 1/2	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →