Union Square Ventures

also referred to as: usv

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 17, 2025 by Christina Cacioppo · across every show →

Everything said about Union Square Ventures, oldest first

Mar 17, 2025 positive
Insight
Cacioppo: USV invests in markets and ideas over founder personalities
“USV, I think they're good at a lot of things. They are very, very, like, market and idea driven. And, you know, like all investment theses, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I think their, like, fundamental world view to me was if you pick, or if a…”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 3:58 The early-stage lessons of a $2.45 billion company (Vanta's Christina Cacioppo) | Masters of Scale
Mar 17, 2025
Disclosure
Cacioppo: Lived off VC bonus for two years teaching herself to code
“What I did was I took my bonus basically lived off of it for two years. So that was kind of my grad student living and taught myself to code.”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 7:35 The early-stage lessons of a $2.45 billion company (Vanta's Christina Cacioppo) | Masters of Scale
Mar 17, 2025 neutral
Insight
Cacioppo: The median startup downside is a multi-year slog, not sudden collapse
“And I think again at USV I'd seen that actually starting the company isn't the hard part. That's, you know, shockingly easy. The hard part is like in year four when it's not really working, but you've raised this money and you have employees and you're still d…”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 9:15 The early-stage lessons of a $2.45 billion company (Vanta's Christina Cacioppo) | Masters of Scale
Mar 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cacioppo: Union Square Ventures hires off the internet, not personal networks
“They, like, they build their firm off the internet. They hire off the internet. They do not hire off of, kind of, personal networks or anything.”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 1:59 The early-stage lessons of a $2.45 billion company (Vanta's Christina Cacioppo) | Masters of Scale
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