David Cramer
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2025 by David Cramer · said 13 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Jun 19, 2025
Cramer: Most founders fail because they focus on technology over business
“Here's a mistake I think of all founders. Not all. Majority of founders make. And, you know, we know the SaaS majority of founders fail. Maybe this is related. And I, and I'm just purely anecdotes from the companies I've invested in, and some of them are like …”
Jun 19, 2025
Cramer: Tracking startup adoption matters more than daily revenue or sales forecasts
“I actually, I could not tell you any of the day of the week, how much money we make. I can give you rough ballpark numbers of how many customers we have, and if we are growing net customers or not, and I can probably tell you we're probably missing sales forec…”
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Cramer: Major late-2000s Django projects relied on his third-party libraries
“I would say pretty much if you were building a Django thing in that era and you were actually trying to do anything of substance, you were using something I had written, not necessarily in the core of Django, but like some third party thing, like century was b…”
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Cramer: Most software development is low-complexity code solving decades-old problems
“Software is not that hard most days. Most of what we build is, and this is why the code gen thing is fascinating because most of what we build is like really low complexity code. Like it's a registration form or something like that. It's not a hard problem. It…”
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Cramer: Founders can turn almost any software into a $100M business today
“You can basically turn anything into a hundred million dollar business these days. Like the technology is really big. The world's really big, you know, as long as we don't figure out tariffs on technology. And so I think you actually don't even have to think t…”
Jun 19, 2025 negative
Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Jun 19, 2025 negative
Cramer: Never ignore your gut skepticism when interviewing candidates
“At the very least, when it comes to hiring, it is the absolute right advice. Trust your gut on if the person knows Or is aligned or whatever. Cause every single time it seems skeptical. Like to me, it's like, it's been wrong. It's been a bad hire and you have …”
Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 negative
Cramer: Founders cannot replicate other startups' paths to product-market fit
“You can't apply their successes. It just doesn't work. Like, great. Century has product market fit. There's nothing you can learn from how we achieved it that you can apply to your business. Cause it was like, Just fortunate. Coincidence, right?”