Sharon Wienbar
Investor, Scale Venture Partners. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Sharon Wienbar invests in mobile and internet companies at Scale Venture Partners. She previously served as VP of Marketing for Amplitude Software and Critical Path.
1shows
1appearances
14statements
7resolved
5supported
1contradicted
71%fully supported
Everything Sharon Wienbar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Scale Passed on $100M Valuation For Startup With Sub-$1M Revenue
“We passed on a deal last week, very early stage company, they sell to businesses, they have less than a million dollars in revenue. They're going to raise a new series of investment at about a hundred million pre.”
Wienbar: Major VC return peaks are 100% correlated with platform shifts
“Yeah, so I think the whole you know, when you think about what has caused, you know, the bubbles, the big peaks in venture capital returns are a hundred percent correlated with shifts in platform technology.”
Wienbar: Scale Has Most Female Partners Among $200M+ US VC Funds
“Scale Venture Partners has three female partners, which is, I am sorry to say, the most in the U.S. Of any firm that has more than two hundred million dollars under management.”
Wienbar: Only 4.6% of Venture Capital General Partners Are Female
“Actually only 4.6% of general partners are female.”
Wienbar: Female CS Graduates Dropped From Over 30% to 18.8%
“In the mid-eighties, at the beginning of the computer science discipline more than 30% of the people who graduated with a computer science degree were female, and the current run rate is about 18.8%.”
Wienbar: Early-stage valuations are lower for startups outside Silicon Valley
“So in the earlier days of a startup outside of the valley, probably prices are a little bit lower for them, right? Because there's just, there aren't as many VCs in your local market, and there aren't as many VCs who are willing to fly to your local market.”
Wienbar: Startup valuations equalize across regions as companies scale
“But as the companies scale, the companies get valued on their potential market size and on their, you know, current traction and success. So I think it all become, you know, it all kind of becomes equalized as the company scales, but the, those early seed roun…”
Scale Venture Partners Portfolio Averages 182% Growth Year After Investment
“The companies that we're investing in for the past couple of years have on average achieved a 182% growth in the year after we've invested.”
Scale Venture Partners Requires a Board Seat in Every Portfolio Deal
“And in fact, that's part of our strategy is that we always have a board seat with our companies. We're very flexible on price terms, amount of dollars invested, but we always have a board seat.”
Wienbar: Founders Should Use Customized LinkedIn Messages for Cold VC Outreach
“I think the more thoughtful place to do a sort of a cold outreach is on LinkedIn. But please don't link it, you know, ask to link to me just with the canned, you know, I'd like to connect with you, but I think a lot of deal flow both on Twitter and LinkedIn wh…”
Wienbar: Existing Portfolio Support Always Trumps Evaluating New Deals
“So the, you know, money, the rule we have in here is money in the ground trumps new deal. So if you have a portfolio company issue, you know, you owe it to them. It's your fiduciary responsibility as a board member and to your existing investors that you've go…”
Wienbar Was Officer at $4B Bubble Company With $800K Revenue
“I was officer of a public company in Bubble with a four billion dollar market cap in 800,000 dollars in trailing revenue.”
Scale Venture Partners Nurtures LPs for Two to Three Fund Cycles
“So, you know, we typically know our LPs for two or three cycles before they decide to invest in us. And that's not uncommon for us and our portfolio companies.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Sharon's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 20VCLEDGER | Investor, Scale Venture Partners | 1 | 14 | 71% 5/7 | full record on 20VC → |