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Frank Meehan

Co-Founder & Partner, SparkLabs Group · 1 appearance on the record.

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Frank Meehan is an investor and entrepreneur who previously represented Horizons Ventures on the boards of breakout companies including Spotify, Siri, Summly, and Affectiva. He went on to co-found SparkLabs Global Ventures, micro-learning platform SmartUp.io, and multiple AI and climate-tech initiatives.

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2 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Contradicted
Horizons Ventures backed Spotify in 2010 when it was only in Sweden
“You know, we went into Spotify when they were still just in Sweden and just watched as it grew out. That's 2010.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 3:07 He Sits on Spotify Board

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Asian SaaS startups with $1M ARR can command $50M Series A valuations
“If it's a SaaS model, they could easily be looking at 3040, depending on the market, fifty million dollar valuations.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 11:32 He Sits on Spotify Board
Insight
Asia's tech market favors recycled 2000s e-commerce and marketplace models
“There's not that much SaaS in Asia. It's much more marketplace in e-commerce. It's almost, Dust off a business plan from 2002 thousand. Bring it back. And run it in Asia and it's running really well.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 11:48 He Sits on Spotify Board
Insight
Meehan: Small domestic markets force startups in Sweden and Israel to go global
“The reason is, is because Swedes very similar to Israelis, very similar to Koreans work very hard, but have to go global. There's no real big home market. And I'm always like those type of markets because it forces the company to go global. It can't just sit o…”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 3:44 He Sits on Spotify Board
Insight
Founders should distribute decks early and resolve off-agenda topics pre-meeting
“So the trick there is that you really absolutely must say to your board, okay, I'm going to give you the slides to the board meeting a week before, and anything, and I'm going to, in the board slides, say these are the things that are going to be discussed, an…”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 6:04 He Sits on Spotify Board
Opinion
Meehan: Sequoia is the biggest VC player in Asia
“Sequoia is the biggest player in Asia right across the board. Interesting. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they're amazing in Asia. Very, very strong. They are the biggest in Asia.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 10:36 He Sits on Spotify Board
Disclosure
SparkLabs pitched LPs on global network access rather than target IRRs
“We didn't actually. We just said that we will, we are a group of people who are incredibly well connected and that we can be, we can see the hottest company you know, within 10 hours of it landing on our desk because we're in all the, all of the key locations.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 13:45 He Sits on Spotify Board
Insight
Founders and young professionals need to be much more ruthless
“I'll tell you what, be more ruthless.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 18:06 He Sits on Spotify Board
Assertion Contradicted
Horizons Ventures backed Spotify in 2010 when it was only in Sweden
“You know, we went into Spotify when they were still just in Sweden and just watched as it grew out. That's 2010.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 3:07 He Sits on Spotify Board

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He Sits on Spotify Board Feb 2, 2016 9m
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