Aydin Senkut
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2022 by Aydin Senkut · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022 neutral
Felicis Ventures manages 200 active portfolio companies with 26 team members
“Today we have about 26 people in our team. Roughly 10 of them are in the investment team. I do have to give a lot of credit to our founder success team. It's a very important aspect of our operation. So that's growing really fast to say like anywhere between 1…”
Feb 7, 2022 positive
Aydin Senkut: Outlier returns in venture capital require outlier thinking
“This is a business of outliers. Nothing that is an outlier is normal. So if you try to bring normalcy or strings attached or boxes into venture, you're not going to succeed, or at best, you're going to be mediocre. So if you want outliers, you need to have an …”
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
Senkut only takes founder meetings with a >50% chance of investing
“In fact, one of the things that I'm trying to do is to only have conversation where I think there is a better than fifty-fifty chance of saying yes, so that we don't waste somebody's time, and we're not spending all that time in a meeting and saying no.”
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
Felicis caps internal headcount by guaranteeing revenue for external solo agencies
“Even if we have aspirations and we want to grow, we don't want 200 people in our team. So we started doing some really creative things. We start engaging people. There are some great people out there. They just want to run their own firm, whether it's recruiti…”