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“Now we're talking about probably 60% of things are not going to make it to their next round.”

“So I don't think 18 months is sufficient. I think you need at least 36 months.”

“Big companies have realized they're not very good at R&D, at sort of good, at sort of new product development, and so what they have done is they have outsourced a lot of their R&D budgets to M&A, and so they let the startups run the experiments, you know, in …”

“Something like half of startups have an immigrant co-founder.”

“Unanimously good for startups in any scenario in which they get involved. And I think in most cases in which the government gets involved, it's good for consumers as well.”

“This is why markets work better than politics, because Freeburg, in order for you to pursue what you want to pursue, you don't have to convince a majority of the country to support it. You just need to find one person who's willing to fund it. You know, you ra…”

“My recommendation would be to get involved in startups first, generally get some operating experience, and that would serve you well.”

“When you're a startup, you face existential decisions daily, weekly, or monthly. You can't just disappear for six months. It's not going to work.”

“You know, we're seeing asset bubbles everywhere in NFTs, in crypto, in startups, in new startups, in new ideas, in home prices, in everything.”

“And I think the worst means that there's an 18 month period where you cannot raise money on your terms. You have to raise money on the market terms.”

“Startups with high growth and moderate burn will get funded through this downturn. Starts with moderate growth and high burn will not get funded.”

“We don't like to do deals that way, but you'll start to see them happen later this year when, you know, companies get more desperate.”

“And if you can basically make your cash last as long as possible, even if you cut to the bone and stop growing. If you come out the other end, and you're the only company that's left, you will win and run over the market.”

“And the problem in that model is that by giving you so much money, capital becomes your primary asset as a business. And capital needs to be the fuel that enables your assets as a business to accelerate. But as soon as capital itself becomes your primary asset…”

“No, but to the point of competition, you you're seeing cuts to, you know, all the non core projects at these big companies. This is going to be great for startups, right? Like the idea that Facebook could focus on, you know, a fourth, fifth, sixth thing is goi…”

“I've been telling all of our startups that you need to plan to have money through the first quarter of 2025.”

“I don't think startups are going to be able to create the AI themselves, but they might be able to benefit from the APIs.”

“The crunch is going to happen. Second half of 20 23 and 20 24. That's where you're going to see the down rounds. That's where you're going to see the restructuring, the recaps and all the rest of it.”

“Whenever they try to, let me just say when starts trying to create laddered bond portfolios, They end up needing the money sooner than they thought. What I'd much rather see a startup do is buy a hundred percent UST bill backed money market fund run by the abs…”

“Most startups in startup world right now are in the danger zone.”

“There's definitely a growing number of startups who are realizing that what they're doing is not working, and they're not going to be able to raise another round, and so therefore figuring out a graceful exit, whether it's an aqua hire or some other type of la…”

“The way startups disrupt is they come in with lower feature products, but a feature that really matters to the customer and a simpler product, and they move up.”

“On a day to day basis, it means there's gonna be less companies that are going to get funded, but more importantly, it's gonna be less LP money going into venture. And there's going to be less capital available to fund startups in aggregate by a significant am…”

“I think now you got to be Q one of 26. And maybe even mid-twenty-six.”

“I mean, look, big companies can kind of afford this stuff, but startups cannot. I mean, this is really the kiss of death for startups. You just can't afford to have these large bureaucracies.”

“By the same token, if you're a startup and you're not seeing improvement in your Q for sales, then you no longer have a macro excuse for why you're not doing well.”

“The trend I'm seeing with startups, like early stage startups, seed stage startups, which are really indicative of what startups will do later on, hiring people, cash basis, paying them hourly outside the United States, not having to worry about stock options,…”

“If you don't have a business That can handle the gas you're putting in the tank. The engine's going to blow up. The engine has to grow. It has to build. The volume has to build so that it can actually handle the fuel.”

“Never innovate on structure. All you do is create legal problems. There's a tried and true way of creating a startup, which is a C Corp. When you try to innovate on legal instead of product, it almost always backfires.”

“And I think it's a great opportunity for startups, I'll say this right now, like I think there's going to be a lot of startups that are going to come out of this ruling that are going to launch a la carte services leveraging AI to make these services available…”

“The same startups that had A request of three million dollars in funding five years ago are now requesting 500 to a million.”

“It's not a good idea for startups to innovate on structure. Using a tried and true C-Corp Is the way to go.”

“You kind of have to mentally burn the boats when you do a startup.”

“Now we're regularly seeing startups hit a million dollars in revenue per employee, something that was rarefied air previously, which then speaks to your point, Freeberg, that there'll be more abundance.”

“Not having it, I think the risk is that if you have 50 different sets of regulation, and it won't even just be 50 as Freebrick said, it's going to be You know, all kinds of pet organizations that pop up in all of these states. What happens? I think what it doe…”

“Not yet. I'm, I've funded a number of startups which claim to be close to it, but of course these are startups and you never know, which tells me it's five, 10 years.”

“So you've got 50 different states, each with their own reporting regime, which is going to be a trap for startups.”

“Every startup I know is hiring for this position, which is somebody who knows how to build and manage agents.”

“If you partner with any of these people, they will slit your throat and take your business wholesale.”

“I've seen with a lot of the startups I'm investing in now, They'll just spend a week or two working with you know, a director to make a launch video.”