Sret: The media tends to have like two stories about start ups. And those two stories are like, you know, super hero and villain rise and fall in one way or another. I'm sret took a bunch of stuff away from this whole experience. But a the narrative thing, like v c's role in narratives in the whole media, i mean, an has future. Sret says he is pretty sceptic about investors' idea of value. He thinks that most investors are more involved in destroying companies than creating them.
(00:08) Welcome Zach Weinberg
(00:55) Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon
(10:41) Crypto Litigation Risk
(16:27) Venture vs. Hedge Funds
(22:25) Sequoia’s Leaked Deck
(27:04) Different Kind of Crisis
(28:20) Tech Companies Had It Easy
(30:21) Uber vs. Lyft
(34:16) Down Rounds
(40:27) High Valuation Doesn’t Mean Good Employment
(45:31) 2008 Work Force
(49:50) Parker Conrad Intro
(50:13) Working on Harvard’s Crimson
(52:45) Left School for a Little Rock Newspaper
(55:13) Cancer Diagnosis
(57:16) Starting SigFig
(58:52) Raising Money Pre-2013
(1:05:29) Challenges in Automating
(1:08:36) The Public Narrative
(1:10:36) Forced Out of Zenefits
(1:19:50) VC’s Role in Narrative
(1:22:59) What Do Founders Want From VCs?
(1:25:46) Do VCs Increase Success?
(1:30:09) Discussing Rippling
(1:38:16) Building a Compound Company
(1:46:56) Hiring People With a Chip On Their Shoulder
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About the Show
Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.
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