Alex Rampell
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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
And then we eventually turned it around and sold it to Visa.
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 there were all sorts of tough times therein.
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
But you run into these like very, very challenging scenarios.
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 it's like option A is bad.
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
Option B is bad.
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 have two choices.
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're at a fork in the road.
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 there's a funny expression by Yogi Berra, this famous baseball player in the US.
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
When you come to a fork in the road, take 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
It's like, what does that mean?
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
He said all these things that make no sense.
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
But what a lot of entrepreneurs don't realize is that the worst option, you think you have two options, but there's a third option, which is making no choice at all.
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 the worst option.
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're better off just choosing something.
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 both of them are bad.
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
This option is very bad.
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 therefore, I don't want to make any choice at all.
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
But you're better off making a choice and committing to something.
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 if you have infinite capital, you could just kind of continue this.
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'm not going to make any choices.