David Hornik

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392 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 25 Feb

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And so once you've had a splunk, then it is a little easier to say, oh, I think this will be all right.

Although my mantra immediately thereafter was one more splunk before I die.

So it is easier because people will give you the benefit of the doubt.

But it is not easier in the sense that you have any greater certainty that you'll achieve it.

I have four companies that I funded when they were a handful of people.

And, you know, double digit millions in market cap and very little revenue.

And those four all went public, traded up past $10 billion in market cap.

And each one produced, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.

So those four really were the dramatic changes.

You know, they had a dramatic impact on IRR.

About half of the others sold for some amount of money.

We made some money, broke even, et cetera.

And then about half of the remainder went to zero.

I was talking to an LP before Uber had gone public, and he said that Uber reflected something like 80% of the total value of his entire portfolio.

And which made him very nervous.

He's like, I need it to go public.

I need that to work.

And it did.

It worked out very well for him.

That worked out fine.

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