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Middleton projects CurieDx will make $500K annually, rejecting founder's $6M estimate
“The financial part, she needs to button up, because my math is she'll make 500,000 dollars a year in the next two years, not six million.”
Middleton: Latin American venture exits lose 20% to 30% to tax friction
“One of the challenges is this like tax and excite, like everything you do there is then effectively costs you 20 or 30% more when you get your money out. So whatever your like goal is, like a billion dollar company is really a seven hundred million dollar comp…”
Middleton: Vital Audio's patents will hold up legally
“I believe the patent will hold up. And so that's part of my, I mean, you have to believe that.”
WeWork was conceived as a global entrepreneur network from its inception
“Adam Miguel's vision was always to build a company that was going to be this global professional network of entrepreneurs and small business owners”
YC startup Squire grew revenue 40x within months of Middleton's investment
“One of my more recent investments And so it's a company called Squire, who is currently in Y Combinator about the demo in a couple of weeks. And these are just two incredible founders, Dave and Song, who have started from zero startup experience to now having …”
Middleton: Alvarez is the only founder this season to mention ROAS
“We've heard what now, 12 or 14 pitches this season. He's the only person who's mentioned ROAS.”
Middleton: Squire angel investment is at 160x on paper
“They're, that, that's one of my best performing on paper investments. It's at a 160 X my cost basis, but yeah, that's a good one.”
Flybridge invested in roughly 80 of 19,000 evaluated companies over 15 years
“There's also, we actually have a lot of data. Flybridge has been around for 15 years. In, in our deal flow product, we have We've documented over 19,000 companies that we've looked at. That's an incredible number. I mean, I wouldn't have guessed that if you wo…”
WeWork's second location opened with unfinished construction for 220 members
“In that moment, a story that I can't think about is, is the way that our members handled when we moved to our second We work labs location, which was on Varick street. And we walked into the building on opening day and construction wasn't done. We had 220 peop…”
WeWork tests and iterates on physical spaces directly with live members
“And we learned that people were more resilient than we thought, which actually led us down the path of now we're able to test and iterate on physical spaces inside of WeWork with real members sometimes because we know they're willing to sort of participate in …”