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Jon Dishotsky

Founder & Managing Partner, Daft Capital. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Dishotsky co-founded the co-living platform Starcity and served as its CEO until its acquisition by Common in 2021. Today, he leads early-stage investments through his venture firm Daft Capital.

What they said8 Shows1

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

20VC Insight

Dishotsky: Optimizing seed valuation caps between $6M and $12M is pointless

“If you're trying to value invest at the seed stage, it's kind of a silly exercise. So I think that like optimizing between a six cap and a 12 cap is really like, I just don't know that that's going to be the right way to invest. I think you're just kind of lik…”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 13:08 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Opinion

Dishotsky: Initialized Capital deserves credit for calling out startup hustle porn culture

“And I actually have to give kudos to the initialized guys for taking down the notion of sort of hustle porn, as I would say. There's this concept in the valley that like you should just grind to the limits of your existence and think about yourself secondarily…”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 17:55 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Assertion Supported

Dishotsky: Seasoned founders statistically outperform younger founders

“And I actually think that the statistics are in our favor. The seasoned guys and gals are actually better performers in many cases, so.”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 23:41 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Opinion

Dishotsky: WeWork set the stage for modern PropTech

“And I think WeWork was the first one that really sort of set the stage. Before that, there was really only like LoopNet and Zillow and Renfin. And, you know, those were really taking a very, you know, web two point O approach to prop tech of, Just being sort o…”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 7:35 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Insight

Dishotsky: Averaging advice from mentors leads to mediocre startup decisions

“Really try to not optimize on the average of all that advice, but really take in sort of the good and the bad, but take it and do it your way. And I think that's really, really important. Otherwise you'll end up with some of a lot of mediocre advice.”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 12:29 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Disclosure

Starcity took a lower valuation offer from Bullpen Capital over bigger VCs

“We took on the folks from Eric Weizen from Bullpen Capital, and I'm just a huge fan of Bullpen Capital and what Paul has built over there. Their offer was a little bit lower, and they were sort of very transparent”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 14:22 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Insight

Jon Dishotsky: Founders should continuously build investor relationships instead of isolated sprints

“Without sort of soft pitching people throughout a series of meetings and You know, you really don't get a chance to build that relationship and your chances of success are just so much lower. Whereas I think you should just always be building fundraising relat…”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 16:26 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

20VC Disclosure

Dishotsky: Star City interviewed 750 prospective residents before launching

“We started the company by talking to 750 people who were making 50 to 120,000 dollars a year, who had full-time jobs, and were living in cities 20 to 50 years old.”

Jon Dishotsky May 17, 2019 ▶ 9:17 20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Founder & Managing Partner, Daft Capital	1	8	100% 1/1	full record on 20VC →