John Callaghan

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

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Callaghan: Early-stage board meetings should spend 90% on strategy, 10% on reporting

“I would just say that the percentage of time devoted to strategy leadership versus reporting in an early stage company is kind of like 90% on the first two and 10% reporting.”

John Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 ▶ 21:28 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

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Jon Callaghan: Founders are the economy's most creative yet least supported people

“The most creative people in our economy today are the startup founders and the most daring and bold, and also frankly, the least supported are those startup founders.”

John Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 ▶ 5:54 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

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Callaghan: Great VCs target uncharted frontiers, not Rosewood networking

“If you're really, really good at early stage venture, that's where you want to be. You don't want to be at the Rosewood schmoozing with other VCs trying to figure out what they did and what, you know, what you can do to be a, you know, a little copy of that. Y…”

John Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 ▶ 26:38 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

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Jon Callaghan: Early-stage VCs must embolden founders to take major risks

“We think that the role of the early stage investor is to fully support and fully embolden those founders to take major, major risk and be bold and daring.”

John Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 ▶ 5:34 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

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Callaghan: Distraction is the main way early-stage boards harm startups

“Distraction. I think that's the easy, in the early stage. Of course, in the later stage, boards can do worse things, but I think it's distraction in the early stage. It's, you know, the board's job, again, in my view, in the early stage, is to really support a…”

John Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 ▶ 24:27 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

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Callaghan: Industrial robotics is underappreciated and generating real revenue

“I think that there's just incredible automation that's happening and it's backed up by software-based technologies, machine learning, and yeah, a little bit of AI and decision-making, that kind of thing, but in computer vision, but we're seeing a lot of very, …”

John Callaghan Sep 6, 2017 ▶ 27:57 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan

The other half of the tape: John Callaghan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 16 times in 4 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

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Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Co-Founder and Managing Partner, True Ventures	1	6	—	full record on 20VC →