startup

“If you make money, like as INIAC or even as a VC founder, like, it's very important to not spend all this money, because you're, you have a limited time in startups to make money, I think, like, and put this money in the market”

“I think for a less mature space, when people don't know what the right questions to ask are, or how to even kind of think about it, like the, what is the right frame of reference? Then I think there's something about just having a really sharp intuition and co…”

“The prosaic way that I put it is, you know, it's my experience as a founder is a top tier VC is a bridge loan of credibility at a point in time when the startup maybe deserves it, but just doesn't have it yet. Mm-hmm. And that credibility is harvested in the f…”

“The interesting dynamic at play is that in the fiat FX markets, as you get bigger, your pricing comes down. In the crypto markets, as you get bigger, your pricing goes up because the spreads widen. So the market is way more efficient for startups.”

“If you don't follow, Where developers are going it's hard to sort of be relevant in terms of tech platforms, and then you really need to understand the new workload in order to build a tech platform. Those are the two things that at least I've kept, and so the…”

“What the startups were interested in were often better product experiences, and so if the startups want stable coins or usage-based billing or what have you, we should build for those needs, not just because we'll have a good startup business, but the enterpri…”

“If all of a sudden for some you know, clever reason you want to prove you can, the idea that, like, a competitor might have 10 people and beat you is probably more likely than even having a ten billion dollar company.”

“The market for startups getting SOC II in 2018 was zero dollars. Truly zero.”