David Frankel

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1,234 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 8 Aug

David Frankel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses | Why Founders Should Never Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Good Enough · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Do you regret it?

I don't regret it at all.

Because I love the relationship.

But financially, will we do as well there?

That's going to be a hundred, two, three hundred million dollar priced when it happens.

Now, you are in a year in advance and you take that price.

From a venture perspective, it doesn't make much sense.

And access is being sold.

The IVs, Stanford's done this forever, but MIT and Harvard are doing the same thing.

It's like you just want to be there, right?

Sometimes you really have to think that through.

And we've said no plenty there.

By the way, we're probably regretted.

I think there are so many founders, right?

It's like de jure.

I think there are fewer entrepreneurs.

And when the tide goes out, everybody goes, I knew, I told you so, and nobody knows when the tide goes out.

But what it takes to be an entrepreneur is just it's just very different in terms of fortitude, in terms of the ability to energize, the ability to go up that learning curve.

The number of times

I've seen the difference in the trajectory between the CEO and the CTO.

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