startup founder
also referred to as: startup founders
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2025 by Nick Bilton · across every show →
Everything said about startup founder, oldest first
Feb 26, 2025 positive
NYT Profiles Still Drive Massive Customer Influxes for Tech Startups
“I am friends with a lot of startup founders who tell me that, like, oh, we got a profile in the New York Times, and we had the biggest influx of customers we've had ever, or we got mentioned, you know, a write-up on here, or whatever it is, and the same thing …”
Jun 4, 2025 bearish
Lemkin: Founders without AI clarity should cash out $5M to $10M now
“The smartest play, if you can possibly pull it off today, is to go make five or ten million, cash out, and just chill. Because you can't predict where it's gonna go. Like, this is, the world's gonna, like, whatever you could do to liquidate your assets now, th…”
Oct 13, 2025
Bonforte: Only naive beginners and 20-year veterans succeed in venture capital
“We say freshmen and seniors make all the money in, in the venture business, like in the entrepreneur business. So you either don't know the rules. So you go into your business and you break a bunch of rules without knowing, or you know all the rules and you bu…”
Jan 23, 2026 bearish
A California wealth tax will drive out wealthy residents and founders
“I mean, all it'll do is just obviously going to drive the wealthiest people out, obviously drive the startup founders who want to get wealthy out, because why would you start here? And literally, like you know, strangle the golden goose of California.”