venture capitalist

“I wish my twenty-year-old self knew that despite what these venture capitalists say, you got to get to profitability.”

“We feel that since we're developing a medical product that we would have very valuable input from physicians that could actually use the product with patients in their practice and give us feedback from their patients and their healthcare providers on how we c…”

“I don't think they ever come with that objection. They actually want to be part of the second one. So they're actually looking as an opportunity to de-risk another investment with entrepreneurs who've done it before.”

“It's actually fairly rare that entrepreneurs and VCs are totally aligned in that entrepreneurs can have great outcomes with five to ten million dollar businesses, and VCs can't, and that's not their model, and the second they get a whiff that something is movi…”

“Like, you can have, you know, a sustainable, calm software business that's throwing off cash. Like, that's something that you can build without necessarily having to go ask permission from Silicon Valley VCs in order to do it.”

“They didn't really like, they don't love the secondary amount, even though they all say on their website, they love giving you liquidity. They don't, they want you to be, you know, tied to the game and, you know, not go off and be distracted. So it depends and…”

“And they're not your friends. You know, what they're doing is they're making money from your decision to go into business as an entrepreneur and make money. And that's a different thing, and you, my view would, oh sorry, my view would be, you know, exploit the…”

“When you don't need the money, when you go to an investor and you tell them, this is happening anyway, you are invited to join us for this journey, the conversation is very, very different. You talk to different people, much kinder people, and you get term she…”