Scott Garber
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2024 by Scott Garber · across every show →
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Dec 5, 2024 neutral
Garber: Managing 40 to 60 Companies Limits GP Hands-On Support
“Most general partners of funds have portfolios of companies. They could be across multiple funds. They could have angel investments. They could have all sorts of other stuff happening. You're one of maybe 40 or 50 or 60 or who knows how many companies in their…”
Dec 5, 2024 bearish
Dec 5, 2024 neutral
Garber: Pitching Modest Exit Targets Can Hurt Founders Raising VC Capital
“In some cases, it actually benefits founders to not be forthright because they don't know where the company is going to go and To raise money. If you got, if a founder goes out and says, Hey, I'm shooting for a 30 to 50, sixty million dollar exit... And if you…”
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Garber: Early Light prioritizes first-time founders in second-tier US cities
“So what I'm prioritizing is what a lot of other funds avoid, which is I'm going after first time founders. Primarily I'm going after second tier cities. And by second tier city, I mean like Atlanta, DC, Baltimore, Richmond, Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago. I'm n…”
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Garber: First-time founders in secondary markets possess irreplaceable hunger
“I think with the first time founder, especially one that went to a second tier school, like a good school, but not a great school. And some of that's in a second tier city. There's that chip on their shoulder. There's that aggressiveness, the pugnaciousness. T…”
Dec 5, 2024
Garber: Generalist investors cannot provide startup customer introductions or hiring help
“Like I can be helpful from a financing standpoint, like telling you what to do, or I think is the right thing to do or around M and a, but like in terms of customer introductions or hires, I can't help anyone. Cause I just, I can't, I'm a generalist. I investe…”
Dec 5, 2024 negative
Garber: Acquirers stall low-runway startups to buy them at 10% of value
“And the M&A, the real smart M&A people are saying, okay, yeah, let's kick some tires and we'll go for a test drive and we'll look over everything under the hood. And then they realize, okay, you're basically running out of money. I'm just gonna, again, same th…”
Dec 5, 2024
Garber targets moderate return multiples rather than 100x outlier outcomes
“I'm basically the opposite, where I want to have a good outcome in almost every investment I make. I have to, because I'm not shooting for a hundred X, 200 X, 500 X outcomes. I'm shooting for In some cases, two or three X outcomes, but a lot of cases, four or …”
Dec 5, 2024
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Garber: Best Portfolio Returns Came from Negotiating Modest Exit Offers
“And some of the best outcomes that I've had within my portfolio are founders that are like, you know what, the offer is not great, but it's within the bottom end of my range. And since I'm in an opportunistic position, I can come back to them and negotiate and…”
Dec 5, 2024 bearish
Garber: Web3 is largely a gimmick and has zero fund investments
“It's not web three where I don't believe in it at all. I'm just a gimmick to some extent, which is what I thought in fund one, which is why there's no web three companies in there. And that's why I've never invested in a web three companies.”
Dec 5, 2024 bullish