Sean Flynn
Managing Partner, Shasta Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Sean Flynn is a Managing Partner at Shasta Ventures, where he led investments in Dollar Shave Club and Whisper. Before joining Shasta, he worked at Yahoo focusing on growing its communication and messaging products.
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7said about them ↓ Everything Sean Flynn said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Flynn: A Nine-to-Five Work Mentality Rarely Yields Greatness
“The first is, if you're just showing up to work, and your career is a nine-to-five activity, you're very unlikely to do something great. You're very unlikely to do something special.”
Flynn: Tech and VC investors follow market sentiment like lemmings
“You know, it's interesting in the venture world and the technology world the pendulum can swing fast and people tend to follow oftentimes like Lemmings.”
Flynn: Conversational bot hype serves platform defensibility over user value
“I think this one is probably more hype than reality, at least at this stage. It makes a ton of sense why the big messaging platforms, Facebook, Kik, and others would want to, you know, turn their ecosystem into a development platform, right? I totally get why …”
Flynn: Messaging platforms suit peer communication over single-player utility tasks
“The one use case that I find more compelling, at least in the near term, is around these applications that are really native to the communication experience, right? It's not booking a taxi or booking an Uber that I think is native to that experience, but it's …”
Flynn: Startups Must Excel in One Area Before Expanding
“But until you've got product market fit, until you're excellent in one area, really nail that first before trying to expand beyond that.”
Flynn: Marketing and sales cannot fix core product deficiencies
“In my view, it's not, it doesn't really matter how great you are in marketing, at sales, at BD. You know, being great in those areas obviously is important, but can't make up for deficiencies as it relates to, you know, the core product experience that you're …”
Flynn: Pokémon Go proves massive mobile opportunities remain
“I think all you have to do is look at the success of what Pokemon Go has had literally over the last week to realize, hey, there's still massive opportunities to deliver magical experiences to end users by leveraging these devices.”
Flynn: AR/VR apps need time before building substantial businesses
“And it'll probably be some time before those applications really emerge. There'll be some time before you get enough of an installed base to build you know, big enough business. There'll be some time before those enabling technologies mature and harden such th…”
Flynn: Largest AR/VR returns will come in deployment phase
“I think ultimately that's where the really big wins will come in the longterm. Absolutely. Yeah.”
Flynn: Major tech providers will adopt voice to extend their brands
“Ultimately, I don't think it's going to be just these unique applications for voice, but I think, you know, many of the large technology providers today that are on mobile, that are on the web will want to use voice as a way to extend their brand with their cu…”
Flynn: Cross-platform voice developer tools will create significant value
“For those developers, I think being able to very seamlessly develop once and then distribute across multiple platforms has the opportunity to create lots of value.”
The other half of the tape: Sean Flynn's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 4 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Move Fast and Break Things Is Not Right, How To Instil Radical Candor In Your Organisation & What Founders Must Ask For From Their Investors with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | Managing Partner, Shasta Ventures | 1 | 12 | 100% 3/3 | full record on 20VC → |