Renata Quintini
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Renegade Partners. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Renata Quintini is a venture capitalist who backs early-stage software and tech startups. Prior to co-founding Renegade Partners, she was an investor at Felicis Ventures and Lux Capital.
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5said about them ↓ Everything Renata Quintini said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Quintini: Series A-C startups cannot compete for scarce Chief People Officers
“You're seeing companies that are billion plus valuations that are searching for those very rare talents and they can't afford it. And we know that early stage companies Have this very latent need. And you know, if a big unicorn can't afford it or find it, let …”
Quintini: High capital velocity harms company, employee, and LP returns
“The abundance of capital and the velocity of capital makes investing companies, you know, for certain funds and certain dynamics, almost like cheap options. And for founders, that's their one shot. That's a career. That's a livelihood and their employees lives…”
Quintini: VCs shouldn't offer operational value-add just to satisfy LPs
“I think the important thing is you should only do it if it matches your skills and it matches your The relationship and the way you want to work with your founders, right? You shouldn't do it because the industry is doing it. You shouldn't do it because LPs, y…”
Quintini: Sector-specialized VC funds risk missing tectonic technological shifts
“Number one, if that industry or that sector is out of favor, you have your glory days, but you kind of go away with that. And number two, you know, it's very hard to branch and think differently. And you might miss big tectonic shifts in other areas that becau…”
Quintini: Startups must plan for massive scale at founding, not dynamically
“Because this growth is so exponential, companies need to plan for that day of a hundred million users or the ten million users at founding, not as they go, because I think there's a lot of trouble that can happen, and there are also a lot of important advantag…”
Quintini: VCs should evaluate startup pitches with a 'yes mentality' first
“I think for me, the biggest lesson was approach each conversation, each pitch with a yes mentality, right? So thinking about how does reality look like if this company is successful, let's leave the how aside for a minute. Let's get creative and let's stretch …”
Quintini: AWS and distribution made starting startups 10x cheaper
“And venture going through a big transformation on the other side of the house and this transformation of seed and product market fit changing, right? The 10 X cheaper to start with AWS, global distribution channels, et cetera. And all of a sudden the instituti…”
Quintini: Stanford's endowment helped launch the venture capital industry
“The Stanford endowment put venture capital in business in a sense.”
Quintini: The best VC firms are built to outlast their founding partners
“I think the best firms, they really build something to last beyond themselves, right?”
Quintini: Lower startup costs enabled the emergence of smaller VC funds
“Cloud, mobile, processing power, all those things that happened in the past, you know, call it 1520 years, they made founders need differently, and I saw what in 2006, seven, eight, people kind of taking that big step back and say, okay, what's changed now, an…”
Quintini: Connected devices and cloud software must assume eventual hacking
“If you're thinking about this connectivity, the internet of everything, and when we're sending everything to the cloud, there are vulnerabilities everywhere, and we need to operate under the assumption that everything's going to be hacked.”
Quintini: Juicero cut prices reactively due to backlash, not strategy
“Juicero that, you know, went out, didn't talk product effectiveness aside, they didn't talk about how they were going to bring costs down, and they actually just did it as a reaction of backlash instead of a strategy.”
Quintini: Ignoring regulation until big enough to lobby is a costly strategy
“The idea of I'm just gonna ignore it or be big enough until I have a voice and then I'll lobby. I think it's a very binary and costly strategy.”
Quintini: Products competing solely on lower cost are unsustainable
“Things that exist because they're just cheaper for cheap sake and don't make anybody better off. I don't think it's sustainable.”
Quintini: Winning frontier tech companies build end-to-end products with empathetic design
“What I see happening in Frontier now is a humanization of technology, right? Companies are building end-to-end solutions. Even if you're, you know, if you think about the big successes in Frontier, like a Tesla, Nest, Invest an Oculus or Cruz. They're going al…”
Quintini: Felicis participated in an Angry Birds round exceeding its fund size
“And the round that we participated in Angry Birds was bigger than the fund size that we were investing at the time. The check size was order of magnitudes bigger than the check size we've written before.”
Quintini: Series B Headcount and Mean Round Sizes Doubled Between 2016 and 2021
“We actually ran an analysis of companies that raise money from 2016 to 20 21. Company Series A, Series B, Series C. On the mean round size has gone up about twice. They're raising twice as more money, but also the number of people that they have by the time th…”
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20VC 5
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- 20VC: Why We Will Continue To See An Explosion In Deep Tech Financing, Why Much of Silicon Valley's Talent Is Going To Waste & How Fund Cycles Need To Be Adjusted To Work With Deep Tech with Seth Bannon, Founding Partner @ Fifty Years
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| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Renegade Partners | 1 | 13 | 50% 1/2 | full record on 20VC → |
 CAPITAL ALLOCATORSLEDGER | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Renegade Partners | 1 | 5 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Capital Allocators → |