startup
also referred to as: start-ups · startups
22 statements across 21 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 20 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2017 by Apoorva Mehta · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (11), Matt Lieber (2)
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 12 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about startup, oldest first
Apr 10, 2017
Mehta: Startup success is mostly luck and narrow market timing windows
“Oh, I think luck is majority of it. I mean, you know, there's just so many elements of luck, so many times when luck plays a part, but I think it's specifically true in startups, because in startups, what you have is this moment in time when a company is possi…”
Jul 27, 2017 negative
Peretti: Founding startups is not a good way to make money
“First of all, in terms of the money question you're asking, it's not a good way to make a lot of money. Sometimes people are fortunate and make a lot of money in startups, but most of them fail, and when I think about the New York tech scene and the people tha…”
Nov 27, 2017 positive
Startup survival mirrors human life expectancy: it depends on burpee recovery speed
“I once read that, like, how fast you can jump up from a burpee is correlated with your life expectancy. And I think that's a lot like a startup. It's really how fast, like, oh, the production manager quit. We got a new production manager. You're like, it's lik…”
May 7, 2018 neutral
Collison: Startups tend to avoid problems spanning multiple complex domains
“Technology companies, startups tended, and still tend, I mean, for understandable reasons, to kind of shy away from things, from problems that sort of, ah, where you have to solve a lot of hard problems, In multiple domains.”
May 6, 2019 neutral
Tynan: Startup survival is directly correlated to crisis recovery speed
“I once read that, like, how fast you can jump up from a burpee is correlated with your life expectancy. And I think that's a lot like a startup. It's really how fast, like, oh, the production manager quit. We got a new production manager. You're like, it's lik…”
Oct 21, 2019
Mar 9, 2020
Patrick Collison: Scaling a startup never gets easier, challenges just change form
“And it kind of feels like that in the startup, where every day now, the problems and challenges are, and, you know, visceral pain is just as acute as when we were starting out. The problem is just of a different form.”
Mar 9, 2020
Patrick Collison: Tech startups avoid hard problems spanning multiple domains
“Technology companies, startups tended, and still tend, I mean, for understandable reasons, to kind of shy away from things, from problems that sort of, ah, where you have to solve a lot of hard problems in multiple domains.”
Jul 6, 2020 positive
Jul 30, 2020 negative
Mar 22, 2021 neutral
Aug 12, 2021
Apr 14, 2022 neutral
Chaudry: Content Creators Face The Same Failure Rates As Traditional Startups
“I think a lot of people can make money right now in the creator economy, but to make a career, I think is extremely challenging. And I think it's just like any other entrepreneurial venture. And I think it's really important to recognize that the term creators…”
Apr 18, 2022 neutral
Ma: Series B is hardest because selling dreams is no longer enough
“You know, at the teenage years where you have enough of a track record where you're making money so you can't just sell the dream of what's going to happen, but you're also not yet at maturity where you can show this is going to, this is already a huge company…”
Apr 28, 2022 negative
Raising venture capital forces startup founders into emotionally wrecking company sales
“Like startups, the thing they don't really tell you is when you raise VC, it's like, you have to sell it. So you're building this thing. You put your blood, sweat and tears into it. And your job is to, if you're successful is you sell it. I mean, it's like, yo…”
May 12, 2022
Nov 7, 2022 positive
Oct 2, 2023
Kudla: Founders with day jobs retreat too easily when startups get tough
“I was going to have to jump in with two feet because there's just too many opportunities where things get tough and you want to retreat back to what's comfortable. And if you have a day job, you have a salary paying the bills. It's too easy to return to that s…”
Apr 4, 2024
Mauborgne: Established companies struggle more with Blue Ocean shifts due to loss aversion
“We see it as effective both in small companies and in large companies, and I would say for established companies, some of the old ways of thinking and humanness and the fear inside of it, overcoming that in an organization to make that shift is a little bit ha…”
May 6, 2024 positive
Nov 13, 2025 negative