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20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Engineered Biology Will Replace Petroleum in Consumer and Industrial Products
“We're going to really be able to remove petroleum, which is the key input into a lot of these products, and use engineered biology to create a much safer, healthier, and really, really a long-term planet for us.”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 20:49 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Bilimoria: Game consoles drive over 60% of Netflix streaming hours
“I think more than 60% of streaming hours on Netflix are coming from the major game consoles.”
Zal Bilimoria Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:58 a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television
20VC Assertion Supported
Solugen Produces Hydrogen Peroxide Using Only Air, Water, and Plant Starch
“And so Soligen figured out how to eliminate petroleum for the production of hydrogen peroxide using only air, water, and plant starch.”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 21:42 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bilimoria: Streaming hours was the metric most correlated with Netflix retention
“There was two metrics at Netflix that every product manager was geared toward. It's subscriber retention and streaming hours. The most highly correlated variable to subscriber attention was streaming hours, right?”
Zal Bilimoria Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:23 a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen Horowitz Sent NPS Surveys to Every Founder Who Pitched
“So all founders that interacted with A-Six-Z in a pitch setting, so regardless of us investing or not, would receive a short survey with one important question. Would you recommend A-Six-Z to friends and colleagues based on the interactions you had with this p…”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 5:03 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Average Time to Exit for Seed-Backed Startups Exceeds Ten Years
“The typical tenure fund life cycles are pretty hard, especially for seed investors that are writing those super early seed checks and time to exit time to IPO is maybe sometimes greater than 10 or 11 years now on average.”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 11:30 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Very Few Dedicated Seed Funds Lead Rounds in Deep Tech
“Yeah, there's certainly a lot more capital and deep tech at the venture and the growth stages of investing. So let's say series a and beyond, which is really fantastic news for us at refactor, but we haven't seen many dedicated seed funds in these areas, espec…”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 15:20 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
20VC Assertion Supported
Series A Investors Demand Far More Traction Than Five Years Ago
“Some of these larger series A's as we've been seeing really do require quite a bit of commercial traction nowadays versus maybe even five or seven years ago.”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 17:07 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Bilimoria: Netflix spent over $100M for two seasons of House of Cards
“The hits are really starting to drive, I think, Netflix's business, which is why they realized that, They can spend a hundred million dollars to actually fund a total of 26 episodes across two seasons for House of Cards. Actually, it's probably much more than …”
Zal Bilimoria Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:13 a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen Horowitz's Early Investment Team Was Mostly Product Managers
“What I loved about A-Six-Z is that everyone had operating experiences of different kinds, especially on the investment team, which was mostly made up of PMs at the time.”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 4:27 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Refactor Capital Plans to Invest in 40 to 50 Companies Per Fund
“If we're going to invest in 40 to 50 companies in this fund, one of them has to be the breakout winner, and a few of them have to be able to, you know, cobble together another one X, let's say.”
Zal Bilimoria Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 12:13 20VC: How a16z Uses NPS To Create Better Founder Experiences, Why Intellectual Curiosity Is The Most Important Investor Trait & Creating A Fund To Last Through The Ages with Zal Bilimoria, Founding Partner @ Refactor Capital
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