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Dmitry Gurski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And it means that if you want to cost 10 billion, we probably should achieve 600 million in revenue and then show profitability and continue growing with the same pace. Can I invest now? No, it's difficult.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And it means that if you want to cost 10 billion, we probably should achieve 600 million in revenue and then show profitability and continue growing with the same pace. Can I invest now? No, it's difficult.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And it means that if you want to cost 10 billion, we probably should achieve 600 million in revenue and then show profitability and continue growing with the same pace. Can I invest now? No, it's difficult.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I have a nice story for you. When I was in Stanford Business School, we had one lesson with a famous professor of management. He did the next exercise. He started to ask people in the room, what is the necessary trait of a good CEO? And people started to say, oh, a good CEO should be knowledgeable. A good CEO should have integrity. Theos should provide inspiration.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I have a nice story for you. When I was in Stanford Business School, we had one lesson with a famous professor of management. He did the next exercise. He started to ask people in the room, what is the necessary trait of a good CEO? And people started to say, oh, a good CEO should be knowledgeable. A good CEO should have integrity. Theos should provide inspiration.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I have a nice story for you. When I was in Stanford Business School, we had one lesson with a famous professor of management. He did the next exercise. He started to ask people in the room, what is the necessary trait of a good CEO? And people started to say, oh, a good CEO should be knowledgeable. A good CEO should have integrity. Theos should provide inspiration.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And maybe in 20 minutes, like, whiteboard was covered by different traits of good Theos. And then this professor looked on this whiteboard and said, probably even Jesus Christ was worse. It means that, in this lesson, that people, they are making kind of glorification of Theos, that Theos should be perfect, they should be almost kind of gods, but Theos is just like the same people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And maybe in 20 minutes, like, whiteboard was covered by different traits of good Theos. And then this professor looked on this whiteboard and said, probably even Jesus Christ was worse. It means that, in this lesson, that people, they are making kind of glorification of Theos, that Theos should be perfect, they should be almost kind of gods, but Theos is just like the same people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And maybe in 20 minutes, like, whiteboard was covered by different traits of good Theos. And then this professor looked on this whiteboard and said, probably even Jesus Christ was worse. It means that, in this lesson, that people, they are making kind of glorification of Theos, that Theos should be perfect, they should be almost kind of gods, but Theos is just like the same people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

They can't be so perfect as people think they should be. You should just understand your weaknesses, your strengths. You should understand why you're useful and you should just make your proper work as good as you can.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

They can't be so perfect as people think they should be. You should just understand your weaknesses, your strengths. You should understand why you're useful and you should just make your proper work as good as you can.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

They can't be so perfect as people think they should be. You should just understand your weaknesses, your strengths. You should understand why you're useful and you should just make your proper work as good as you can.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

biggest strengths that I may make rather good conclusions in a very simple manner. It means that people need clarity and simplicity, and I think I may provide clarity and simplicity. I'm not overwhelming them by information. I may take much information on myself, But then I provide to them like a solution, decision, description in a very simple form and they understand and believe and follow.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

biggest strengths that I may make rather good conclusions in a very simple manner. It means that people need clarity and simplicity, and I think I may provide clarity and simplicity. I'm not overwhelming them by information. I may take much information on myself, But then I provide to them like a solution, decision, description in a very simple form and they understand and believe and follow.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

biggest strengths that I may make rather good conclusions in a very simple manner. It means that people need clarity and simplicity, and I think I may provide clarity and simplicity. I'm not overwhelming them by information. I may take much information on myself, But then I provide to them like a solution, decision, description in a very simple form and they understand and believe and follow.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And my main weakness, sometimes I may be too slow for change. The biggest events in my life happened when the life burned my bridges. But now I understand that I should have burned my bridges by myself. For example, I started to make apps, very significant reason was that because it was crisis of 2008 and book publishing was in terrible situation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And my main weakness, sometimes I may be too slow for change. The biggest events in my life happened when the life burned my bridges. But now I understand that I should have burned my bridges by myself. For example, I started to make apps, very significant reason was that because it was crisis of 2008 and book publishing was in terrible situation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

And my main weakness, sometimes I may be too slow for change. The biggest events in my life happened when the life burned my bridges. But now I understand that I should have burned my bridges by myself. For example, I started to make apps, very significant reason was that because it was crisis of 2008 and book publishing was in terrible situation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I started to focus just on floor because my old portfolio declined because of political situation in region. And when everything was good, I was just delaying necessary change and I was just waiting this crisis for life to burn my bridges. And then when the necessary change happened, then I started to move.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

I started to focus just on floor because my old portfolio declined because of political situation in region. And when everything was good, I was just delaying necessary change and I was just waiting this crisis for life to burn my bridges. And then when the necessary change happened, then I started to move.