Russ Fradin
13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 10, 2025 by Russ Fradin · across every show →
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Nov 10, 2025 neutral
Fradin: Public Company Acquired Developer Startup DX for Roughly $1 Billion
“So actually there was recently a company acquired, I think a week ago, two weeks ago, called DX, if I remember correctly. They were bought for about a billion dollars by one of the big public companies. I can't remember. Whoever's listening can Google it, but …”
Nov 10, 2025
Fradin: Repeat founders face discovery bias because buyers falsely praise ideas
“One of the problems you have when you're a multiple time founder is people have these positive associations with you. They know the thing they bought from you last time was valuable. They know you sold the company for a lot of money. So there's this kind of co…”
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
Fradin: Major Category Shifts Create Massive Third-Party Measurement Opportunities
“Anytime lots and lots and lots of money moves from one category to another, client server to cloud, or, you know,
TV advertising to online advertising or when pharmaceutical advertising wasn't legal
and then it became legal, right?
You have the chance to bu…”
Nov 10, 2025
Fradin: Larridin probably could have raised $30M to $40M seed
“I think I probably could have raised forty million dollars. I don't think I could have raised a hundred. I mean, I could have if I had a totally different idea that needed the money, right, if I was building a robotics thing. But I probably could have raised 3…”
Nov 10, 2025 negative
Fradin: Free child-monitoring software failed because parents avoid confronting kids
“And the truth is at the end of the day, even when we fucking gave people the product for free, they wouldn't install it. And I think at the end of the day, there was this weird parental disconnect of like, am I worried about all of these things in theory? Yes.…”
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Nov 10, 2025 negative
Fradin: Wine.com Was Backed by the Worst Investor of His Career
“After about four months, it was pretty clear that me and the other guy that had gone there to fix it had made a terrible mistake, and it was a shitty business, and we had unfortunately raised money from the worst investor I've ever worked with my whole career,…”
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
Nov 10, 2025
Fradin: Dynamic Signal raised 2014 round after abandoning $5M ARR
“I went and raised a round in 2014 where I basically said to investors, I know I have four or five million ARR. Completely ignore that. I'm walking away from that. It's this 200,000 dollars in pipeline. That's what you're investing in.”
Nov 10, 2025 positive
Fradin: The First Investor He Pitched Offered to Fund Larridin
“I started with who did I want to work with, and I had a pretty short list of who I wanted to work with to be the lead. And I was very fortunate that the first person I talked to wanted to invest, and that was great for me, and I'm a big fan of Andreessen and o…”