Mike Jones
Co-founder & CEO, Science Inc.. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mike Jones is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Science Inc., a Santa Monica startup studio and venture investment firm. He previously served as the CEO of Myspace and founded Userplane.
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Jones predicts traditional LPs will move capital into crypto by late 2017
“And I believe that we're seeing, within months, this third phase of wealth moving into crypto, which will be traditional LPs and investors finding managers they trust, like us, to basically move large amounts of exposure into crypto. And that will, you know, c…”
Jones: Most ICOs will fail, but surviving tokens will be extremely valuable
“I don't think it's going away. I certainly believe there will be tons of these ICOs that will fail, and their token value may also fail, but I think there'll also be winners, and those winners will be really valuable.”
Jones: Tokenization and ICOs will fundamentally change early-stage venture capital
“It is going to change venture. I mean, it has changed venture. It's just, if I look at my investing activities over the last six months since we've been participating in this, it's changed the way I think about equity and the way I think about early stage comp…”
Science Blockchain token holders directly receive tokens from incubated startups
“If you're a qualified US investor, and you happen to own or buy one of our tokens, and you have it then sitting in your, you know, Ethereum qualified wallet, what that means is over time, as we incubate businesses, and if those businesses also run their own to…”
Jones: A Filecoin ICO failure will not destroy the broader crypto market
“I don't believe in that binary nature. I think that the ICO slash irrevocable token transfer vehicle that we're witnessing right now has applicability in lots of areas... If they aren't successful, I don't believe that will pull down. I mean, it may have a fin…”
Jones: 80% to 90% of ICO capital originates outside the US
“80 to 90% of these ICOs are raising more capital internationally than they are in the U.S.”
Jones: Daily utility ICOs in 2017 raise between $10M and $500M
“There is basically a giant token sale, at least one happening every single day, to the tunes of Ten million dollars up to five hundred million dollars.”
Jones: 65 registered hedge funds are raising for crypto allocations in 2017
“In fact, I believe this week there was an article released that showed there were 65 pending registered hedge funds that were in the process of completing their raises to move dollars into the crypto market,”
Jones: Core crypto developer discourse occurs in hard-to-find private Telegram groups
“I'm very engaged on Telegram, and there's a ton of very hard-to-find groups where the miners and the core blockchain developers and Bitcoin enthusiasts share ideas. I spent a lot of time in those Telegram groups.”
Science Inc. focuses on startups that can scale through paid media
“Unlike maybe, you know, certain investors or venture groups where they invest in a whole wide variety of different industries, I look for things that we expressly have in, you know, internal information on how to build. So for me, that typically means companie…”
Science Inc. seeks young, feedback-receptive startup founders
“We need incredible CEOs and entrepreneurs that are both, you know, young and eager enough to want to jump into starting a new company, but also receiving enough that they'll take constructive feedback and hopefully guidance provided by our team.”
Science Inc. requires clear downstream funding and M&A pathways before incubating
“We also look for businesses where we have, you know, direct connections with the funding groups and in the M&A environment. So I prefer businesses where if they're doing really, really well, I know who to go to get them financed. And I know who to go to when t…”
Inspirational leadership is essential to offset below-market startup compensation
“You're typically kind of underpaying the market. You've got to have leadership that inspires people that makes the one, you know, that makes the best people want to work with those individuals.”
Startup incubators should stay secondary to portfolio CEOs and their teams
“Science fundamentally needs to fall into the background. The stars in our building are the CEOs and the teams that run these great operational businesses. And my team and any cultural, you know, thesis that, that science brings to it really needs to be, you kn…”
MySpace rebuild team accomplished with 200 engineers what previously took 2,000
“Being able to do with a 200 person tech team what previously they had done with a 2000 person tech team”
Communicating the studio model to investors is Science Inc.'s greatest challenge
“But when you're launching a, an incubator or a studio that, in essence, holds equity in various degrees of a whole portfolio of different companies, it's a very different entity. So honestly, one of the most challenging parts has been Conveying the strategy an…”
Science Inc. operates crypto mines and holds cryptocurrency long-term
“We originally had set up mines, we had invested in a few companies, and we're kind of long-term holders of crypto.”
Jones: Blockchain Capital pioneered legally compliant tokenized venture funds
“Where blockchain capital raised a portion of their venture fund through a token sale. And they were one of the first groups that figured out the legal process of setting this up and tokenizing their investment vehicle.”
Jones: 11 crypto tokens exceed $1 billion valuations in August 2017
“There's 11 tokens now that have greater than a billion dollar value with a substantial amount of daily circulating liquidity within the token sale marketplaces.”
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2016 30 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
- 20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- 20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- 20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- 20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Science Inc. | 2 | 21 | 63% 5/8 | full record on 20VC → |