Graham Weaver
15 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 16, 2025 by Graham Weaver · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Jan 16, 2025 negative
Weaver: Teaching CEO tactics at Stanford produced zero actual entrepreneurs
“I was teaching the X's and O's of being a CEO, basically hiring, firing, having hard conversations, managing a board, fundraising, selling, All the things you would imagine that a young CEO would need to know. After about four years, I started to realize that …”
Jan 16, 2025
Jan 16, 2025
Weaver: Alpine lost money on Fund I, taking 14 years to stabilize
“We lost money on our first fund. You know, we started doing well. We got hit by a recession. You know, we started digging out whatever, but long story short, I was 14 years into running my firm until I could say like with confidence, we were gonna even stay in…”
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Weaver: Alpha comes from world-class management, not industry perfection
“So the thing that we probably believe to be true that not that many people agree with us on is that the management team is really where we think all the alpha comes from. You can't get the industry wrong. Cause if you hire the best management team in the world…”
Jan 16, 2025
Weaver: Initially embarrassed to admit he wanted to be Tony Robbins
“Another one is what's the thing you really want to do, but you're just too embarrassed to say it. And my answer to this question was that I wanted to be a motivational speaker like Tony Robbins, you know, and I would, I was super embarrassed to say that, but t…”
Jan 16, 2025 neutral
Jan 16, 2025
Jan 16, 2025
Weaver: Quit only when you stop believing the vision long-term
“I think the time to quit is when you can no longer see the vision and re and you can no longer really believe the vision. And then when that happens for a long period of time, or when maybe you're no longer even excited about the vision”
Jan 16, 2025
Weaver: Talking activates more brain regions than writing or thinking
“You actually activate more of your brain when you talk than when you think or write. So thinking operates the least activates the least amount of your brain. Writing is a little bit better, but talking activates like a whole, whole different region of your bra…”
Jan 16, 2025
Weaver: Across 600 backed businesses, he's never seen one succeed quickly
“We've invested in 600 founder, 600 businesses, the vast, let's say 550 of those are founder, founder started businesses where we're the first money. I've never in one of those examples seen anyone who did thing something quickly. They've all been very, very lo…”
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Jan 16, 2025 negative
Weaver: Saying 'not now' to career dreams often turns into 'never'
“I've never had a student come to me and say, Hey Graham, you know, my real dream is to do X, but I'm just going to give up on it. I'm not going to do it. No, one's ever said that instead they say not now and not now, if they're not careful, will turn into not …”
Jan 16, 2025 negative
Jan 16, 2025 neutral
Weaver: Everything you want is on the other side of 'worse first'
“Everything you want is on the other side of worse first. And this is something where I almost can't think of many exceptions to this, where, you know, you pick, pick anything you want to better. Body. Okay. You're going to need to go to the gym. When you go to…”