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Michael Lazerow

15 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 11, 2025 by Michael Lazerow · across every show →

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Nov 11, 2025
Insight
Lazerow: Being a founder is much harder than being an investor
“Being a founder is so much harder. Investors have their own worries. We've done both. You got to raise money. You got to create a product that invest, that entrepreneurs like, but the existential dread of being an entrepreneur, of waking up and not knowing whe…”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 0:05 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025
Assertion Supported
Lazerow lent Gary Vaynerchuk his only conference room to start VaynerMedia
“Gary's asking for our only conference room, and somehow Cass and I said yes.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 39:49 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lazerow: Liquid Death is his only CPG investment
“I don't invest in the food space often. You know, Liquid Death is the only CPG company, but I love the space.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 37:19 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lazerow details backing Scopely at the seed stage before its $5B exit
“The five billion dollar exit. That's scopely one of our seed investments had to Savvy Games.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 6:06 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Lazerow: We made bad angel investments because we couldn't say no
“We made a lot of bad investments because we weren't strong enough to say no to certain people who maybe have supported us in the past, and so it just took a little, kind of, getting back on our feet.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 15:37 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Lazerow: Boring small businesses, not OpenAI, will drive real AI value
“The number one thing I'm excited about is boring businesses that use AI to streamline processes, to find new customers, to communicate in a better way, and we just think that although all of this discussion about AI has been focused on open AI and these multi-…”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 7:29 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025
Insight
Lazerow's four-week marination framework for evaluating new startup ideas
“I let them sit, let them marinate. If you're excited about it in two weeks after you've really thought about it and done a little research, then sit with it for another two weeks, talk to some people. And then if you come out of that process that you're still …”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 37:48 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025
Insight
Lazerow: Two ways to be rich are earning surplus or spending little
“Well, there are two, I mean, there are two ways to be rich. You make a boatload of money more than you could ever spend, or you don't spend a lot of money”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 23:38 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lazerow backed Liquid Death pre-launch without knowing it would reach $1B
“Liquid Death is a really great example of here's a creative director, Mike Cesario, who comes up with an idea to market a wellness product, water, in a very novel, innovative way across social media. Did we think it was going to be a billion dollar plus compan…”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 6:27 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Insight
Lazerow: Experiencing other lifestyles drives trillions in entrepreneurial value
“And the power of getting out of your own routine was, And seeing how other people live, spend money, spend their time, has led to trillions of dollars of value creation, and more importantly, passion.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 31:25 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lazerow: Entrepreneurs are innately wired to compulsively generate business ideas
“And so what you're experiencing is if you're an entrepreneur, there's no other way. Like, it goes back to that movie, The Crime Game, of why did the scorpion sting the frog on the way across the river, right? Because if he stings the frog, they both die. It's …”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 32:10 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025
Disclosure
Lazerow: Velvet Sea Ventures manages about $400M in AUM
“We have a VC business, which, you know, about four hundred million assets under management, Velvet Sea Ventures.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 2:10 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Lazerow: Helped raise $400M for cancer research and donated millions personally
“Now we've helped raise four hundred million and have donated millions ourselves, right?”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 25:02 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lazerow on selling his company to Salesforce for nearly $1 billion
“We sold to Salesforce close to a billion dollars. I spent close to four years there, loved it, still love the company.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 13:53 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Insight
Lazerow: Founder suffering creates more purpose than just deploying capital
“I love suffering more than sitting around and just deploying capital, and the suffering of an entrepreneur is where you find your purpose and your passion in life, if you're an entrepreneur.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 1:53 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
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