Arjun Sethi

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 17, 2024 by Arjun Sethi · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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May 17, 2024 positive
Insight
Sethi: Good venture allocators concentrate in winners, not bridging strugglers
“So if you're, in my opinion, a good asset allocator, you're reducing your loss ratio and you're concentrating your capital and the products that are working. So you're not bridging companies. You're not reserving companies just because they got a series B or a…”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 59:29 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sethi: FTX showed $1B revenue and $600M EBIT when Tribe evaluated it
“Where at the time that we had measured and quantified it, there were about a billion in revenue, about six hundred million in EBIT.”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 51:42 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Sethi: Quick commerce companies still lack unit economics and free cash flow
“So one of the reasons why you've seen me not invest in, you know, quick commerce or any of the delivery companies that were there, they, A, they didn't have unit economics. They still don't today. They're trying to do growth at all costs. I think that can make…”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 31:30 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024
Disclosure
Sethi: Invested in Square early and passed on Instagram
“So I invested in Square when they first started, like the black small square of credit card processing, but I didn't invest in Instagram.”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 5:25 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sethi: Tribe Capital is on track for net 5X returns on all funds
“We have a goal of hitting a net five X return profile for all of our funds over a 10 year period. And we've always been on track for them. That's kind of our historical record.”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 27:13 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Sethi: Tribe Capital's sweet spot is $30M to $300M enterprise value
“We invest in a company at its, what I want to call, early-esque to mid-stage, series A, B, and C. So I basically think of it as fifty million enterprise, 30 to fifty million enterprise value, all the way to two 50 to three hundred million enterprise value. Tha…”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 51:06 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 neutral
Insight
Sethi: Startups fail from product, go-to-market, or management depending on stage
“At the early stage, they don't work because their product doesn't work. At the mid stage, you might have the product, but their go to market doesn't work. And at the late stage, it's because the management team decides to do something extreme, and then the com…”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 50:25 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Sethi: Holds equity long-term even post-IPO or public acquisition
“So, so if a company goes public or the been acquired and the company that acquired them has is a public company, I tend to just stick around for a long time.”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 6:44 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
May 17, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Sethi: Over half of Tribe's portfolio has average teams but great PMF
“If I went through all of the companies that we have in our portfolio, I would say that 50, 60% plus are what I call average teams, but they have amazing products and product market fit.”
Arjun Sethi May 17, 2024 ▶ 54:04 VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
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