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Alex Rampell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
977 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

So that's going to massively increase the pressure on the application layer.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

So the best thing that you can do if you're an application layer company is hopefully have something that, I hate to say it, but it's like you want to have hostages.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

You want to have all of the data in your company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

You want to have all of the data of your customer in your product, and then just make sure that... I mean, this is, I think, the thing that we talked about last time I was on your show.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It's like...

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

The battle of every startup versus incumbent is whether the startup gets the distribution before the incumbent gets the innovation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

What do you do?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

You go boring.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

You build the most boring thing possible.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Nobody really cares about it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Nobody's that interested.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

That's why I love Vlad at Ask Leo.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It's like, who cares about procurement?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It seems stupid.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It's not attracting 9,000 competitors.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Hopefully, you get all of the data in there, and then you can build these interesting things on top, and you're not going to attract that much competition.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

And even once you do, it's just it's kind of hard to switch.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

So I don't know if that answers your question.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Yeah, I think this is a big challenge.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

I mean, if you look at all of the unicorns and how many conform to rule of 40, it's pretty small.