Greg Zen

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2020 by Greg Zen · across every show →

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Dec 8, 2020 positive
What-if
Zen: Velocity acquisition price would be 10x higher with .com domain
“Had I been velocity.com, I could have easily gotten an extra zero.”
Greg Zen Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 14:41 The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
Dec 8, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Zen: Lost Most First-Sale Proceeds in Wall Street Post-Dot-Com Downturn
“Most of the money that I got from my first sale was tied up in Wall Street, so I got sank as well.”
Greg Zen Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 29:50 The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
Dec 8, 2020 neutral
Opinion
Zen: Bill Gates was not the best writer, but his tech vision was mind-blowing
“I remember business at the speed of thought by Bill Gates. It's a pretty heavy read. It's, you know, he's not the best writer at least back then, but at the same time, it blew my mind what he was talking about, what you could do with technology.”
Greg Zen Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 5:17 The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
Dec 8, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Zen: Walked Away From 2000-Era Startup Due to $30M Series A Requirement
“And so to get the developers and like the team involved to make that happen was going to be an unheard of kind of series a, like a thirty million dollar plus series a, which for, you know, something where you don't have anything yet back then it was really unh…”
Greg Zen Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 11:38 The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
Dec 8, 2020 positive
Insight
Zen: Six-figure IT staff require less babysitting than $50k workers
“What I was strategically going for was six figure IT people, partially because I understood that the people that are making 40, 50,000 dollars, you tend to have to babysit them a little bit. They're not going to show up to work on Monday morning sometimes beca…”
Greg Zen Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 20:16 The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
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