startup founder

“If you're working, you know, average 80 hours a week versus somebody that's working 40 hours a week, whatever that takes them one year to figure out, it will take you four to six months.”

“An investor's incentive is to get you to burn money because they believe it'll help you grow faster. And if it grows faster that you can always raise more money and burn more money and they can put more money in. So for you to burn, So they can deploy more cap…”

“The highest status thing you could do because I get access to people that the startup found to raise a hundred million dollars. Couldn't, they wouldn't even talk to them. Like I get access to the craziest people in the world because they benefit from my work.”

“The thing that most startup founders, in my opinion miss when they think about fundraising and private companies is that at the end of the day, everything converters to public markets.”

“If that's the goal, we try to keep the portfolio actually more liquid because their hope is that they can finance more of it themselves, right? The idea is, well, I did my first company and by IPO I owned 15% of it. The next time I want to own 30% of it, right…”

“I'll see someone with their very first liquidity, the very, very first liquidity, they take it and instead of doing something a little bit safe in case there's a rainy day, they turn around and they go put it in a bunch of like very early stage startups. Often…”

“A lot of founders, though I think want to stick with their company very, very long term. They're not necessarily thinking, you know, two years out, I'm done. they want to stay along. I mean, this is their baby. They know it. They've grown it. So it's not nece…”