Chris Degnan

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1,056 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 May

Chris Degnan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And it's like, no, dude, you can do weird things until you don't and things will end badly for you.

It sounds like I moved to San Francisco and the dot-com boom.

It sounds a lot like the dot-com boom.

15 and then we can raise it 500.

What about the margin?

How about you're reselling a bunch of large language models at a negative margin?

How does that go?

Do you have that conversation with founders a lot?

99% of them are not.

Why?

Because they've never been operators.

So they're just regurgitating something they heard in another board meeting that they think might be of interest.

I was on a board call.

I was on a board call of a seed stage company.

And one of the VCs got in and said, when are we going to do our first million dollar deal?

I was like, dude, how about you shut the fuck up?

I mean, it's like, what value is that at all?

That's the best advice I've ever heard.

Thank you for that.

I think the best board member that I've ever seen is Mike Spicer.

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