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Investor · Independent
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18 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I think there are different variations of how you do this, but there’s a startup variation of it which is somebody gets up, there’s a PowerPoint deck behind them, and they don’t know what it is.”
02 / commitment
“There are other funny ways you can do it, but I won't go into those that are slightly in the grey area.”
03 / uncertainty
“Your mic setup is godly. I don’t know if it’s your voice or your mic, but something is perfect.”
04 / belief
“I think the deal closed in 2008, so let’s say 2007—started thinking along these lines.”
05 / commitment
“You can basically say, hey, we will boost your WiFi through either those mesh network routers, or just provide WiFi where you don’t have WiFi.”
06 / belief
“There's also this guy. The guy who created Control Labs (I think), which got bought by Facebook.”
07 / uncertainty
“There’s a game (I don’t know if you’ve ever heard it) called PowerPoint Karaoke.”
08 / belief
“I think a SPAC index fund is interesting, and I want to know how you create an index fund.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don't know if he's working on this, but I saw him talking about or tweeting about, we really could just go put solar panels into space and harness the sun's energy that way and then beat it to the earth or something crazy.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you guys have ever heard this but, Bill Gross, who’s the founder of Idealab.”
11 / commitment
“You don't need to put up $2 million for the solar installation. We will do it—Chevron—out of our profits from oil and gas.”
12 / commitment
“I kept every email I sent and things like that because I want to help the next entrepreneur who’s going to be like me—needs this.”
13 / evaluation
“From my experience, you don’t need them unless you hit product-market fit. Sometimes, the E is totally off base.”
14 / prediction
“For everybody else, I realized that the core problem was we want to beat Twitch.”
15 / commitment
“We bought the company, that brand, the domain, the email list, and all that stuff for $1 million.”
16 / evaluation
“Because I need to sell this company. It’s not going to be the mega home run we think, but there is some value here.”
17 / evaluation
“The whole team that was working on it—the majority of the team, 95% of the team—is at Twitch and got bought because we had built a whole bunch of things.”
18 / commitment
“When we bought it, we did one smart thing, which was we had some predefined ground rules.”