Peter Rojas

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

20VC Opinion

Rojas: Easy Kickstarter crowdfunding hurts hardware startups' operational discipline

“One of the things about when you're building, say, raising money for hardware on Kickstarter, for example, is that You can raise money so easily for if you lay out a compelling product vision that it actually takes away some of the constraints that would force…”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 26:59 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rojas: Startup valuations at the seed stage have begun to rationalize

“I think that they've actually started to rationalize a little bit more.”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 13:14 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Disclosure

Rojas is open to cold emails and reviews every pitch

“I'm actually pretty open to the cold emails for what it's worth. I take a look at everything”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 14:23 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Disclosure

Rojas: Seed-stage investment decisions are driven by product, not metrics

“So not metrics driven at this stage for me. I think that what I care a lot about is I look at the product.”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 17:52 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Opinion

Rojas: Venture community is open and friendly, not cutthroat

“I think one of the things that I, I've been pleasantly surprised by is how open and friendly other people in the community, the venture community are... I think there's maybe this stereotype that of feces is very kind of cutthroat and always trying to You know…”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 20:20 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Assertion Supported

Rojas: Weblogs Inc. took investment from only Mark Cuban

“We only had one investor in Weblogs Inc. It was Mark Cuban”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 22:21 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Assertion Contradicted

Rojas: Fewer than 1,000 people were blogging in 2001

“It seemed at the time blogging was a very, very, very small space. There were maybe, at that point, I think there was probably less than a thousand people blogging.”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 4:13 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

20VC Assertion Supported

Rojas: Betaworks made 25 to 30 percent of investments on West Coast

“Now, Betaworks has done about 25, maybe 30% of its investments historically have been on the West Coast with the majority of those being pretty much in San Francisco, a handful in Silicon Valley.”

Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 7:56 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

The other half of the tape: Peter Rojas's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 2 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 Peter's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	SVP of New Products, Mozilla	1	8	67% 2/3	full record on 20VC →