Victor Gutwein
Founder & Managing Partner, M25. On 1 show, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Gutwein founded Chicago-based venture capital firm M25 in 2015, focusing on Midwest tech startups. He has backed over 100 startups across the region and regularly appears as an investor judge on The Pitch.
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Everything Victor Gutwein said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gutwein: DTC Has Not Figured Out How to Scale Post-Adpocalypse
“I think that overall DTC as an industry has not figured out how to scale like the new channels now that they can't spend VC dollars on Facebook and Google spend.”
Gutwein: Modern Picnic Is Too Niche to Become a Billion-Dollar Brand
“But I also worry about the long, like the long plan for market size, just because this feels more niche than what I've seen from other brands that have gotten to that kind of billion dollar mark. I think the archetypes, I think are a little too narrow for me t…”
Gutwein: Modern Picnic will sell for $50 million in two to three years
“Two or three years, she sells this for fifty million to, and then she's on to her next thing.”
Victor Gutwein passes on The Pitch citing lack of unicorn comps
“As a venture capitalist, I don't really get excited about the potential for the more ad and subscription based revenue streams because I just haven't seen a lot of comps that have done really well. As far as, like, unicorn potential, which is, like, really whi…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Victor's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 THE PITCHLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, M25 | 4 | 4 | — | full record on the Pitch → |