TinySeed

“I looked at the, like, 3000 software acquisitions being done in the last three years, and I said, okay, how many of those companies are how many of those companies get mainstream tech press mention when they get sold? And it's less than seven percent.”

“If you're coming in at one and a half million pre, Then a 50 X return is, is the company sells for 75. Now those kind of outcomes are much more doable and much more frequent than you know, you, I, something selling for seven hundred and fifty million or a bill…”

“We're doing SPVs. We haven't really focused on two, but I think that's what we'll still do. I think we'll effectively, what we're looking to do is make our money doing our primary business. Like we don't like, we're sort of similar to YC and that, that we're l…”

“I think you probably need to have at least 50 companies in your car to be, to have the outcome where you're expected to have it, like, at least like a five X return on capital.”

“Yeah, our current portfolio is about 55% last time I checked.”

“Like if you take a high valuation, 1012, fifteen million dollars, and you raise a bunch of money, that's, that closes off your opportunity to exit for 10, 20, 30, forty million dollars. You simply won't be able to. Like there'll be, usually there are restricti…”

“Yeah, we're pitching 20, 30%, something like that.”

“He wrote a piece and I think in January saying how to invest in a startup. And he said, you should never invest in any company that couldn't potentially be a ten billion dollar company. And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. Like there's a lot of companies…”

“A 120. Yeah. I mean, you know, they had kind of their standard deal. I'm sure I and I talked about that when he was on it and we didn't have kind of too many questions there and, you know, we signed up there and they took a percentage of equity in return for t…”

“So I don't want to go on the VC track. I'm more interested in investors like tiny seed or earnest capital, things like that.”