Chris Sacca
25 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 8, 2018 by Michael Batnick · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Oct 8, 2018 neutral
Jun 12, 2023
Sacca: Founders who do not help clean dishes lack startup empathy
“If they couldn't empathize with the host, how can I be helpful? Then it just shows somebody who is not equipped to build a startup because a startup is constantly about empathizing with your customer and your user, and then showing how can I make it easier for…”
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Sacca: Lowercarbon team members are instructed to accept podcast invitations
“I also have this rule. If you get invited on a podcast, accept it, go on the pod. And as long as you say something that is true and authentic to yourself and accurately represents the values of our company, then you will not get in trouble for saying what you …”
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Sacca: Investors cannot back founders without knowing their personal scorecard
“There is no doubt sharing space with people and breaking bread reveals a lot about who they are. What drives them? And you can't really back somebody until you know their ambition and what's on their personal scorecard.”
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023
Sacca turned student loans into $12M before going $4M in debt
“And I took my student loans and I turned them into twelve million dollars. But that twelve million dollars I didn't send. I just kept rolling it back in and held material positions in these two stocks. And then within a 10 day period, I say it's black swan, bu…”
Jun 12, 2023 neutral
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Jun 12, 2023
Sacca: Invested $25K into Twitter while employed at Google
“I wrote a check into Twitter while I was still at Google for 25 K. And that was one of the things I needed that money back. So I would show up at the company and work my ass off to try and make it more valuable because that wasn't break off 25 to be polite sit…”
Jun 12, 2023
Sacca: Founders should evaluate VC dilution exactly like granting employee stock options
“Every time a founder is considering taking money from a venture capitalist, there is the same process they should use when they're considering hiring an employee to whom they're going to give stock options.
Every single time you're making the calculus is the a…”
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Sacca: Removing Carbon From Any Process Inherently Makes It Cheaper
“So anytime we remove carbon from a process, it just gets cheaper. Carbon has an inherent value. It's necessary for a lot of the stuff we do, And it has a monetary value. And so any way we could take it out of building a product or running a service, we just ha…”
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Sacca: Lowercarbon opens its investment committee and memos to all employees
“The one all hands meeting we have is everyone in the company is invited to our investment committee. The lead on the deal or the co-leads on the deal present the deal, but everyone in the company has access to everything we've done. All the diligence, the deal…”
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Sacca passed on Dropbox and Airbnb due to competition and safety fears
“I told the Dropbox guys that Google was going to crush them because we already had G Drive internally. I told the Airbnb guys that somebody was going to get raped or murdered and the blood was going to be on their hands when they were renting out a room in som…”
Jun 12, 2023
Sacca: Investors must credit market timing on upside, question downside risk
“When things are going up, it's easy to convince yourself you're a genius. And when things go down, it's easy to tell yourself that it was bad luck. And so much of what we do for a living is inverting that. And when things are going up, giving yourself, hey, yo…”
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Sacca: Free markets are the most powerful solution for climate change
“Bless the activists and everybody else who cares about it. But I actually think the market is the most powerful solution to the stuff we're doing. And I think for the very first time in my life, I can have a massive impact on the planet while also making a ton…”
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Jun 12, 2023 positive
Sacca: Silicon Valley judges talent on ideas rather than seniority
“I saw Silicon Valley as the place that was most based on merit and least on seniority. Being in DC, you get exposed to politics, and politics is so much about have you earned your keep? Have you put in the time? Have you served? Have you risen up through the r…”
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Sacca: Early angel deals fail when backing fixable companies over great ones
“The first few deals I did with my own individual money once I got out as an investor were garbage because they would come pitch me
and I'm like, oh, I know how I can make this better because that's what I was used to doing at Google was just making things bett…”
Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Sacca: Lowercarbon Portfolio Company Reached $120M Run Rate with 60% Margins
“We have a company that In the year, maybe three of the company was doing a hundred and twenty million dollar run rate selling a commodity, but because they make it with enzymes instead of oil and gas, they have 60% margins.”
Jun 12, 2023 neutral
Jun 12, 2023
Sacca: Best founders project calm inevitability of success, not aggressive pitching
“When you spoke with them, even as the company was in its earliest days, they spoke with the voice of the inevitability of the growth and success of the company. And they weren't selling you. It wasn't that their heart rate rose, and they were trying to convinc…”
Jun 12, 2023 negative