entrepreneur
also referred to as: entrepreneurs
10 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Nov 21, 2024 by Nick Mastronardi · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Nov 21, 2024 neutral
Mastronardi warns that founder optimism and perfectionism can impair critical candidate evaluation
“Like I think to be a successful entrepreneur in the first place, at least for me, I feel like I'm an optimist. I want to make positive change, positive impact on the world. And I'm also a perfectionist, which like drives me to do well. But I think those two th…”
Dec 3, 2024 neutral
Kozak: Founders face unique stress that even spouses cannot fully comprehend
“It could be a very lonely journey being an entrepreneur, because everybody has a stressful job, and everybody's life is stressful, that's life, but there is a very special kind of stress that is reserved for a founder, and Even your spouse can't truly know wha…”
Jan 30, 2025 neutral
Rizzo rarely backs former entrepreneurs in their first venture fund
“I'm rarely going to do something in a first fund for one of those, but when I see a track record that you show me, you've translated your capability of being an entrepreneur into being an investor. Then I love you because then I know that you can help entrepre…”
Jan 30, 2025 negative
Entrepreneurial experience does not guarantee early-stage venture investing acumen
“What I see in a lot of early stage seed type managers or venture managers, I see a lot of entrepreneurs that think they can become investors and it's easy to I presume that they, because they've been an entrepreneur, they know how to do it. And that I definite…”
Feb 6, 2025 positive
May 8, 2025 negative
Padnos: VCs rate male founders higher in 13 of 16 success attributes
“The male and the female entrepreneurs responded to a long set of questions, almost identically. But when you ask the VCs, the question is a male or a female, what are the most important attributes first stack rank them? And then is a male or a female more like…”
May 19, 2025
Founders rarely accept debt capital through fully automated, self-serve outbound platforms
“Taking capital is a very personal thing. So it's rare that a company will be contacted via outbound. They're going to sign up on the platform and then money's going to be deployed. They want to see who's lending them money.”
Sep 4, 2025 positive
Rothzeid: Entrepreneur Mindsets Shifted Toward Defense Tech Due to Geopolitics
“Today, when we engage with entrepreneurs, The mindset has totally shifted. I think a lot of that has to do with Ukraine, but also the just geopolitical issues facing the world today, where all of a sudden, you know, partners that were great market opportunitie…”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Duffell: Entrepreneurial drive is largely innate, but business skills can be taught
“I think that the burning desire to build a company or build something really Meaningful for the world is something, is a drive, an ambition that you're probably born with or develop as a young person for a particular need. But then the other skills around buil…”
Apr 28, 2026 neutral
Wadia: Corporates face hard structural limits on metabolizing startup innovation
“These corporations, they're operating at a scale that is really unimaginable to many entrepreneurs. And so it's not so simple to just take your thing that you created and just slide it into a product or service line. There's a lot that needs to happen. And so …”