David Hornik
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392 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 25 Feb
David Hornik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, no, I think it's, I gave a term sheet to a founder once and he had six term sheets from very good firms.
And he ultimately said, he ultimately said, David, I'm going to take your money.
I'm looking forward to it.
And I said, well, what was your process?
And he said, I literally called
references for each of these people and said, tell me about them.
And he said, I kept going until I got to a negative reference, until I heard negative things about it.
And then I compared the relative firms.
And he said, you would not probably be surprised, but there were a couple of these investors.
I only need to make one reference call.
And I heard
And I heard really challenging things about them, you know, and so do the work.
Right.
I think I think venture investors need to do the work.
And I think there is a lot of irresponsible investing going on right now where people are, you know, funding things based on reputation and hearsay, etc.,
and haven't done the work themselves.
And that will go poorly.
And then entrepreneurs should do the work because, you know, Rene Lassert, who was the very first entrepreneur I backed, I've funded him across two companies and I'm on his board today after 25 years.
He has been stuck with me for 25 years.
Imagine if I was terrible.
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