venture capitalist

“The worst case scenario is you waste a decade of someone's time on something that's not going to work. Right. And so the reality is I actually think it's like rip the bandaid off. If you're on the margin, if it's not working, like it's actually kind of disinge…”

“It's one of the beauties of Silicon Valley and our economy as it's set up, is like, this is a no-fault zone, unless, you know, so don't lie, don't make shit up. It's either working or not, and you probably know, Right? And if it's not working, it's completely …”

“Being an investor in Silicon Valley is kind of being like having tenure in the startup community, right? Because, you know, you kind of, it's the weirdest job, right? Like you get paid no matter what, right? You have fees coming in, like sure, after a few fund…”

“Which makes sense if you're an investor, because you want companies that require more and more capital. So you get to keep buying more and more of the startup along the way, like capital. Ironically, venture capitalists love things that can be very large, but …”

“It means that you can no longer like email a VC, even with like any personal information and expect them to respond because you're just like, this is probably a bot. I'm not going to respond.”

“Investors have a strong incentive for you to keep going because you're just an option once they put money in. And so if they get 50 cents on the dollar, they don't care, and they'd rather you just keep trying because you're just a free option. They already hav…”

“Investors often don't want to have tough conversations because they want founders to refer their friends to them and they don't want to be the kind of tough person or whatever.”

“You're not a hunter, you're a trapper. Right? And the difference is, what you have to do is you put your nets, you put your traps in the right area, so it really matters, like, where you select your fishing grounds. You don't obsess about the biggest minnow, b…”

“We were meeting with a very large LP today who summarily said to this we have a lot of data on this and we can definitively say that the venture capitalists that are tweeting the most are not the ones producing the DPI.”

“To the credit of Thrive, to the credit of some of these guys who have gone super huge in late, they're playing this game where the only thing I take issue with is, are they really even technology? Like, are they venture capitalists? They're not. They're capita…”

“If you believe that it's just a matter of dollars in to get it, then I'd actually be very bullish on like the metas and the biggest companies in the world because they're the ones who can spend infinitely.”

“Everybody's got to have a big foundation model AI thing in their portfolio, and they have to be able to show they're also on the board for, you know, status and LP relations. And so that's actually what's driving this.”

“A venture capitalist from one of the top, let's, let me put it this way, top three venture firms in the world said that they were using it to mock all negotiations that they do. So they were taking, you know, describing the negotiation then, and then asking it…”

“Venture capitalists who have, like, too many Twitter followers can't really use Twitter. Right. Like you need like the right scale Twitter following of like intense loyalty and people who like are into what you're doing. If you get too broad, it just kind of s…”

“I actually think that venture capitalists are probably the least sophisticated financiers, like on the planet. They just have hope, right? Like it's the only hopeful version of finance, right? Because it is like, you know, you're basically investing in people …”

“And like the irony is a sort of venture capitalists generally not manage anyone. So they're terrible at management. Like venture capitalists are awful managers, but in general, unless like They were twenty-year operators and they kind of like opted out of it a…”