Ankur Jain
16 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2026 by Ankur Jain · across every show →
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Ankur Jain: Pitching naysayers beats 10,000-person surveys for product development
“I find our best product development comes from going to all the naysayers and just trying to pitch them over and over and over and over and over again to see what hits and what doesn't. Like, I don't believe in the, like, go send out a survey to 10,000 people …”
May 13, 2026
Jain: Bilt is an $11 billion business across housing and hospitality
“So even though the company's an eleven billion dollar business, and we touch housing and hospitality, and we have all sorts of businesses that are hospitality platform services like hotels and restaurants and gyms and pharmacies, we run every business line as …”
May 13, 2026 bullish
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May 13, 2026 negative
May 13, 2026 negative
Jain: Aspiring founders motivated only by company size should keep day jobs
“If somebody started the conversation by saying, I want to build a big business, I would say, go stay at your day job. Because it is so painfully difficult, and unless you are so passionate about the problem you're solving, it's not worth it”
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May 13, 2026 negative
Jain: Early founders should bypass VCs to partner with corporate buyers
“In the early days, why would you go to a middleman, like a venture firm, whose value add is to connect you to somebody else, who by the way, then still doesn't have any interest in actually helping you, right? Versus going directly to these companies that you …”
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May 13, 2026 bearish
Jain: Early VC would have killed Bilt's 18-month regulatory fight
“If I had raised venture capital money at the beginning of the company, there's no way I would have had the freedom to make the decision to fight for 18 months to go try to solve that. Because we were looking at this for a 10, 20, 30 year opportunity was worth …”
May 13, 2026 positive
Jain: Bilt operates without managers and offers equity buybacks
“We don't hire managers. So that's, I'll start there. We don't do managers. Like, I just don't believe in that. In a world where everybody has to own a piece of this business, and by the way, when I say own, I mean the product succeeds or fails with them, and w…”
May 13, 2026 positive
Jain: In a crisis, ask what makes this the best outcome
“What we try to do is say, okay, what has to be true for this, for us to look back in a year from now and say, this was the greatest thing that happened to the company? And it's a totally different mindset, but it forces you to say, yes, this may feel like a cr…”