Drew Oetting

10 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2025 by Drew Oetting · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Aug 22, 2025
Assertion Supported
Oetting: 8VC has co-founded over two dozen companies over past decade
“And I think Joe and I and the rest of the EPC crew have probably done over two dozen at this point over the last, you know, decade or so.”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 7:05 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025
Insight
Oetting: Combining investing and incubation fails without intentional culture and incentives
“I think the thing that's underappreciated is how much your organization has to be designed intentionally to make to balance this sort of dichotomy of starting companies and investing in them. There, there's definitely some overlap, but I think if you don't int…”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 9:52 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025 neutral
Insight
Oetting: Life science GMP facilities carry immense fixed costs regardless of utilization
“In life science, these facilities are incredibly expensive. They require huge amounts of labor that needs to be there, whether there's a commercial project or not. Because you're a GMP manufacturing facility, you can't have, you know, mold accumulating. If you…”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 24:33 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025 neutral
Insight
Oetting: Building a University Is a Startup Without Profit Upside
“Building a new university. It's like starting a super complex startup, but there's no like profit, you know, dream at the end of it.”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 2:36 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025 neutral
Insight
Oetting: Pharma companies resist new manufacturing tech to protect approved drugs
“Pharma companies are rationally incredibly averse to switching their process because they've already, you know, they make tons of investments or acquisitions across all these different sort of binary bets. You get one that works, you don't want to have to go d…”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 26:48 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025
Disclosure
Oetting: 8VC employs three to six full-time EIRs to incubate startups
“The predominant way now is that we have a group of three or six EIRs at any time that are, you know, they're full-time employees at APC, but they're working only on sort of the process of either coming to an idea or getting it ready to kind of launch.”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 7:29 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Oetting: Drug developers ignore manufacturing efficiency due to 90%+ margins
“Part of that's because if you're successful, it's, you know, like a 99% margin business. So if you can do it, if you're really bad and it's an 89% margin, who cares?”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 23:14 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025 neutral
Insight
Oetting: Reindustrialization Requires Unprecedented Government and Startup Collaboration
“And I think that it's probably the biggest reality of this reindustrialization concept, I think is that it's going to require the federal government and some state governments and startup companies to interact in a way that is probably hasn't happened in a lon…”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 1:30 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 22, 2025
Insight
Oetting: Over-refining startup concepts makes them less appealing to top founders
“I think also top founders, like, they want to have They want an idea to be theirs, at least to some extent. And so if you over refine the idea, then it can become less interesting to a founder who wants to, you know, take it, you know, put their own, kind of p…”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 8:27 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 8, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mavrookas: Five to ten new defense primes will scale within a decade
“I think over the next five to 10 years, I'll answer, I won't dodge the question completely. I think there will be somewhere, but around five to 10. I think you'll see five to 10 really, like, big impactful companies scale over the next five to 10 years, and ho…”
Dino Mavrookas Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 10:33 Dino Mavrookas: America Needs to Build Ships Again
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