venture capitalist

“I think in the main, most venture capitalists today are price takers, not price makers.”

“I think a lot of the failure cases in this business tend to be where I think venture capitalists overstep their bounds on the board and think they know more about the business than they actually do”

“I think you could do that in the eighties or nineties and be a great venture capitalist. It's very rare these days. So first of all, being a founder is a big advantage.”

“The length of time until you get all your money back is much longer. They hold Publix longer.”

“It's empirically true that underrepresented venture capitalists are more likely to fund underrepresented founders who are more likely to hire underrepresented employees.”

“It used to be the venture capitalists didn't want to travel more than 30 minutes for a board meeting, and that's completely irrelevant.”

“As we're seeing venture capitalists start to become more focused rather than covering the entire waterfront. And so focusing on cybersecurity and all of things around protecting the enterprise AI and machine led and algorithmic led kind of applications. Those …”

“A lot of venture capitalists and investors generally make the mistake of thinking, well, you know, a deal that's doing a few 100,000 annualized revenue is a seed deal. A company that hits the million dollar annualized revenue run rate is a series A deal. Five …”

“A lot of the reasons why people focus on ownership, it's a hard thing to say is that they're just bad pickers. So if you say I can focus on 20, I want 10, 15, 20% ownership in this company. It's because they believe that if they make failure somewhere else tha…”

“I think venture capitalists are painfully naive about who is their investor base and putting themselves in the shoes of the LP and what some of the issues that the LP has when they go to their investment committee making recommendation”

“Venture capitalists who back these companies oftentimes don't fully appreciate the value of tax assets because many of the corporations are not oriented to being profitable. They're more oriented towards growth. And as such, the adoption in the venture capital…”

“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…”

“The biggest problem is they're not really in the hands of the venture capitalists. They're in the hands of the entrepreneurs. If you're an entrepreneur who doesn't want to bother being a public company, they're real questions for institutions about how do they…”