Sahil Bloom
9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 9, 2022 by Sahil Bloom · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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May 9, 2022 positive
Bloom: Senior leaders value thoughtful handwritten notes over $10K luxury gifts
“Those type of people, by the way, they get people that send them 10,000 dollar bottles of wine. They get the Dom Perignon champagne sent to them all the time, the beautiful gift boxes, whatever. But you'd be surprised, because a book with a handwritten note, s…”
May 9, 2022 neutral
Bloom: Very few markets are true winner-take-all outside consumer social
“Most markets don't have winner take all either. There's going to be a few people. Consumer social has been one of the areas where there's been real winner take all. Like Facebook existing meant that MySpace was not going to exist, but very few markets really h…”
May 9, 2022 positive
Bloom: 5 a.m. workouts led to relationships with Tim Cook and Hemant Taneja
“Also, I was showing up at the gym for six straight months at five a.m. Because I wanted to get to the office by six 30. And so I was working out five days a week at five a.m. Because I knew I wanted to get to the office then. It wasn't going to the gym because…”
May 9, 2022 neutral
Bloom: SRB Ventures will not raise a large fund over $25M
“A lot of people raise a small fund because they want to go raise a big fund next, and I am not going to do that. And the reason I say that is because at ten million dollars or at twenty five million dollars, probably max, you are collaborative with everyone.”
May 9, 2022 positive
Bloom: Informal personal board of 5–15 advisors beats traditional single-mentor models
“I think in the traditional sense of the word, what it meant was you had one person who you had a fixed meeting cadence with, and you spent this number of minutes once a month with this person, you'd get together with them, and you'd talk about your set of Sche…”
May 9, 2022
Bloom: Wrote $5k to $25k angel checks in 2021 to amplify founders
“In 2021, I kind of accelerated it just doing more of that type of investing off my balance sheet, smallish checks, you know, like 5000 to 25,000 dollar checks into early stage companies, really with the thesis that I could write about them to help tell their s…”
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022 negative
Bloom: Constant competition in PE and hedge funds prevents long-term perspective
“What I find is when you're in the heat of battle, it's very hard to like zoom out and say like, why are we fighting this war? Right? Zoom out because you're just in it. And that career path, private equity, hedge funds, you're in the heat of battle constantly.…”