Max Simkoff

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

20VC Insight

Max Simkoff: Admitting Uncertainty to Staff is Comforting During Crises

“In times of crisis, people like to assume that leaders Have a very specific strategy and they've mapped everything out and they know what to do. And the reality is like, we're just winging it. And sometimes when you tell people that that's what you're doing, t…”

Max Simkoff Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 22:39 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

20VC Assertion Supported

Simkoff: States Title became the eighth-largest US title business in five years

“We're only four or five years old now, but have already become the eighth largest title in closing business in the United States, and well on our way to becoming number one.”

Max Simkoff Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 4:15 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

20VC Insight

Simkoff: Naivete is a founder's most dangerously powerful skill

“The more you know about an industry, the more reasons you have not to start a company or grow a business, right? It's too hard. Did you like understand the competitive landscape? I don't know if you remember this conversation, but we talked about how like naiv…”

Max Simkoff Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 6:11 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

20VC Insight

Simkoff: VCs resist specialization because they hate extinguishing option value

“The one thing VCs hate is extinguishing option value. So, like, when you're in a meeting with them, you're like, what's your typical investment size? Well, we do Series B and C. You're like, oh, we're looking for And they're like, oh, we do seed investments to…”

Max Simkoff Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 6:51 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated

Simkoff: The Bay Area will grow stronger despite recent tech exodus

“This area is going to only get stronger as a result of the dynamic change that's going through.”

Max Simkoff Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 12:31 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

20VC Disclosure

Simkoff: Lennar became States Title's largest shareholder after selling them a business

“Our largest single shareholder, still a minority shareholder, but the largest shareholder on our cap table is Lenar, who Fifth Wall introduced us to, and they became our largest shareholder because we bought their legacy title business, which gave us a ton of …”

Max Simkoff Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 29:32 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

The other half of the tape: Max Simkoff's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 1 episode across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Max Simkoff, by other people (1)

20VC Disclosure

Wallace: States Title bought an entire business unit from a corporate LP

“Our idea was our corporates would just buy the products of the tech companies we were investing in. We didn't contemplate that our startups would be buying entire businesses from our corporates, which is precisely what Max did.”

Brendan Wallace Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 8:33 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Max'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 & CEO, Doma	1	6	100% 1/1	full record on 20VC →