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20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: A major VC found their best founders ignored investor calls
“When I was at Dropbox, one of the large, I won't say who, but one of the largest investors in the world In tech told me that they had run a survey of all the investments they'd ever made. And the founders that didn't actually talk to them, refused to take thei…”
Sujay Jaswa Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 8:53 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2032
Jaswa: Only one or two of 1,000 'living dead' startups will pivot
“There is no doubt that one or two of those living dead companies will figure out a spectacular pivot over the next decade and builds unbelievable products that millions or tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people use. And that's one or two out of pro…”
Sujay Jaswa Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 11:46 Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Only 1-2 out of 1,000 'living dead' startups will pivot
“There is no doubt That one or two of those living dead companies will figure out a spectacular pivot over the next decade and builds unbelievable products that millions or tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people use. That's one or two out of probabl…”
Sujay Jaswa Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 12:40 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Jaswa: 95% of California private schools opened while public schools remained closed
“From August on something like 95% of private schools were open, while in California, basically no public schools were open.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 8:34 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Creators Will Run Everything in Business Over Traditional Business Executives
“I think the creators are the ones who are going to run everything. And technical people have a much easier path to creation than business people, but I actually think anybody can create things.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 14:54 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Jaswa: Zoom Maintained a 10x Engineer Cost Advantage via Beijing Office
“Well, it turned out, I think their entire engineering team is in Beijing. The fully loaded cost per engineer, if I remember correctly, including equity and everything else, was 40,000 dollars a year. The fully loaded cost for any other software company has got…”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 34:00 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Jaswa: Dropbox will maintain a $10B valuation through the recession
“There's not going to be many after this whole recession is done that are worth ten billion, but Dropbox will be because it's just a cash flow machine.”
Sujay Jaswa Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 21:15 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Privacy and security problems will grow 100x in a decade
“The premise behind Aura is that over the last 20 years, all of our digital lives have gotten more and more complicated and interesting, and yet every single person knows that security and privacy online are worse than they've ever been. And if you fast forward…”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 1:42 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Guardant Health blood tests might become routine annual cancer screenings
“We were both investors in Garden Health, which, you know, we might revolutionize how cancer is detected and how early it is. It might become part of our, you know, annual screening is just to get a blood test.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 3:59 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: Extreme Progressive California Ballot Propositions All Failed in November 2020
“There were a number of propositions that were on the ballot last November that were fairly, you know, extreme progressive, I would call them, and they all failed.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 10:11 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jaswa: mRNA vaccines will transform treatment of every known disease
“Not only are they going to have changed the history of the world when it comes to COVID, I think they're going to change every type of disease that we know of.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 34:56 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Jaswa: Quibi Content Was Roku's Most Popular in First Two Weeks
“One of the fascinating things is Roku bought the content library, and my understanding is in, like, the first two weeks of that content launching on Roku's ad-supported platform, it's the most popular content on there.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 6:55 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Jaswa: WndrCo-Owned App VPN Super Gets 200,000 Downloads Daily
“We own a product called VPN Super, which is pretty consistently like a top 10 productivity app on iOS. It was built by a four person team in Singapore. This thing gets 200,000 downloads a day.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 28:13 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
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