venture capitalist

“The venture capitalists need you know maybe a lot more than sometimes you need them because the end of the day, you know, we kind of giving away one of the most commodity of products, which is money.”

“A lot of people assume you're getting a note from a VC means you don't have a viable business, and I think that's completely incorrect. It's, you don't have a viable, you potentially don't have a viable venture scalable business, but maybe you don't even want …”

“Because venture capitalists have raised more and more money, the expectations of what they need for returns are much higher, right? So it used to be like one billion dollar business that they, that was like venture scale. Then it's like ten billion dollar busi…”

“Startup valuation is literally a made up number. What I mean by that is that, you know, venture capitalists or people who want to buy your company in the early stages, based on fear of losing the deal, will literally make up a number. That is, you know, valuat…”

“Everything VC is a social game. And these VCs are inherently just kinda trying to get a better You know, they're competing against their coworkers and their friends at other funds. And like, that's what they really care about. They care about who's involved in…”