venture capital

also referred to as: vc · vcs · venture capital industry

10 statements across 10 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Kirill Sheynkman · across every show →

Everything said about venture capital, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013
Insight
Sheynkman: Venture capital should be your last job, not your first
“VC should be your last job, not your first job”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 2:03 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Dec 5, 2013
Insight
Launching a startup as a VC EIR beats self-funding
“The best way to launch a company is not to do it on your kitchen table or in your front room with seven guys that you fly over from Europe. It's to have a VC pay you to go and launch a company.”
Todd Papaioannou Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 6:59 Panel: Continuuity, Sailthru and Visual Revenue // Data Driven NYC #7 // June 2012
Jun 26, 2014 negative
Opinion
Mega-fund VCs are just lottery ticket buyers lacking company-building skills
“And I think a lot of my contemporaries are lottery ticket buyers. And, you know, you have a three billion dollar fund, and you're just buying lottery tickets, and because you don't know how to build companies, your only value is paying more.”
Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 18:20 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Feb 3, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Behavioral data shows VCs chase high rewards while hedge fund managers hedge
“VCs are very motivated by that sort of high reward stuff. Versus the head fund managers, they're hedging, right? So of course they're going to put in effort for a variety of different things, including low reward situations.”
Frida Polli Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 20:54 Matching People to Careers Bias-Free // Frida Polli, Pymetrics (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Mar 19, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borgman: Starburst Data is entirely bootstrapped and profitable from day one
“We haven't raised any venture capital thus far. And in fact, we're actually profitable, and we've been running profitably from day one,”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 13:03 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Nov 13, 2019 negative
Opinion
Volpi: VC industry and Index Ventures have failed on diversity
“I think the industry at large, and our firm included in this, has not done a good job at all Funding against diversity or including diversity in our own firms?”
Mike Volpi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 34:05 Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apr 12, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Turck: Venture capitalists are skeptical of early horizontal platform startups
“I find that VCs are quite skeptical of companies building horizontal from day zero.”
Matt Turck Apr 12, 2022 ▶ 17:02 Decision Automation's Bright Future with Nextmv's Carolyn Mooney
Aug 9, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Biewald: Most enterprises have not deployed LLMs into production yet
“I think that LLMs in particular, we talk to a lot of the people and we don't see a ton of people getting them into production yet. And I think it's funny, like VCs are always surprised, like when we tell them that I think that I don't know. I'm bullish on LMS,…”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 18:09 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
May 16, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Tunguz: VC funding peaked at $300B in 2021, fell to $175B
“Venture capital, like it hits peak, I think in 21 at 300 and then it fell to one 75.”
Tomasz Tunguz May 16, 2024 ▶ 2:05 AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
Nov 21, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hyperscalers spend more on single enterprises than AI startups raise total
“The consultancies and the strategic advisory firms and every hyperscaler can literally throw more innovation dollars at the enterprise than you will raise in three years from venture capital, right?”
May Habib Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 28:28 Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
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