Sahil Lavingia
11 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2020 by Sahil Lavingia · across every show →
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Dec 8, 2020 positive
Sahil Lavingia: Immersing in any book perspective inevitably generates empathy for it
“I've never read a book and come out of it being less convinced of the argument, even though I was not on the side of the argument. Like, when you spend that much time sort of looking at a subject from a specific perspective, you just end up becoming more empat…”
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Lavingia: Broad exploration reaches intellectual frontiers faster than deep specialization
“So many of the insights, like the easy insights have already been solved. If I just go deep, it's going to take like, literally you have to go to the bottom of the ocean to get, like, if you go deep in quantum theory, there's a lot of books you're going to hav…”
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Lavingia: Work and investor relationships should be voluntary and frequently re-upped
“I really try to form, build relationships with people that feel at will. They feel like we're both re-upping to keep this thing going on a very frequent basis with my employees, with my investors, with other folks that I talk to. It should feel very, not trans…”
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Lavingia: High-effort targeted outreach can achieve near-perfect response rates
“People who don't think of it like a numbers game where I just need to send a hundred emails. And what three people are going to say? Yes. It's like, I'm going to send three emails. I'm going to spend three hours on each one and all of them are going to say yes…”
Dec 8, 2020 neutral
Sahil Lavingia: Silicon Valley 'startup friends' are purely transactional business ties
“Silicon Valley is kind of funny because there's this concept of we're friends. And I like to joke that we're startup friends because it's such an overused word. And what it means is like we met once in person for coffee. And if they, you know, I need something…”
Dec 8, 2020
Dec 8, 2020 negative
Lavingia: Startups must constantly project growth to retain venture capitalist backing
“Startups, like you have to signal that you're growing. You can't say, Hey guys, we're going to take a break, figure this thing out. Cause everyone's going to look at that and say, Oh, these like, as a venture capitalist, you don't want those people. You don't …”
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Lavingia: Building agenda-free relationships with investors makes early fundraising smoother
“And it was honestly a relatively smooth transition because I'd built up these relationships with people around just talking about product and talking about, there was no agenda. I wasn't selling them anything. So I'd sort of already effectively sold them on my…”
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Lavingia: Transactional, Unbundled Coworker Relationships Are Superior to Social Bonds
“I like people who are very kind of transactional, frankly. Like, I like people who are like, I'm here there, there's to do this job. This is what I came here to do. I'm really excited about speeding up the site. That's all I care about. And like, 99% of our co…”
Dec 8, 2020 positive