Eric Vishria
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163 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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Then be an investor. Yeah. Yeah.
Matt is the best at understanding the insight and the depth of an entrepreneur's insight. That is Matt's superpower, understanding the depth of the insight. Is the insight bullshit? Is it authentic? Is it really deep? He's six sigma on that. Matt says very little and it is always insightful.
I don't think NVIDIA is going to be the only game in town. I don't believe NVIDIA is going to be the only game in town on an infrastructure layer. And I think the entire setup right now is an assumption that if AI is real and here to stay and there's real ROI, then NVIDIA just continues to run at this level. And I don't believe that.
There's so, so many. Good.
You know, I think you'd have to say, I'd have to say, I'd have to say Getz and Jim Getz. And the reason I would say Jim Getz, well, one, Jim is the one who first told me I should get into venture. And so I'm eternally grateful to him for that. He said that to me in 08. It took me six years to figure out that he was right, but I'm super grateful for him for that. But two, we talked about this.
There's almost nobody who's had wins in the consumer land at the scale of WhatsApp and wins in the enterprise land. And he's done it over and over. So to have Palo Alto Networks and WhatsApp is just insane. And obviously, he's had many, many other wins. And so he's been a spectacular, spectacular investor. And I'm eternally grateful to him.
Just like at that time. So in 08, when I talked to them, I really had it in my head that I wanted to be a founder. And I'm super glad I did. I had some conversations, but came up with the idea for Rockmelt. And so Tim Howes and I, who was my co-founder, pursued Rockmelt. And then five years later, you know, Rockmelt went through our ups and downs. We were bought by Yahoo in 2013.
And then, you know, a year later, I joined Deathmark.
I did not. No.
I think, you know, Square, like a lot of firms, hires people quite early in their careers and like grows their own.
I can think of several little things that I would have done, but I don't know. We had, Early acquisition interest in Rockmelt. That was probably something that I should have leaned into more in retrospect. That's an example, and that would have been a very different. But in the scheme of things, looking back now, it's 2024. Would it have changed anything? Probably not.
This is the whole, what's that children's story about the horse rider and the soldier and the conscription? Have you heard this story? No. It's a really amazing story. The summary of it is it's like ancient China and there's a draft. And the first part of it is there's a family in rural China and they get a horse. This kid finds a horse. The villagers are like, oh my God, he's so lucky.
It's so lucky. It's so lucky. And the wise man is like, we'll see. And the kid's riding the horse and breaks his leg. And then the villagers are like, Oh my God, it's so unlucky. It's so unlucky. It's so unlucky. And the wise man is like, we'll see. And then there's a draft, a military draft.
And the draft people come to this rural village and they draft everyone except the kid with the broken leg because he has a broken leg. And the villagers are like, we're so lucky. He's so lucky. And the wise man's like, we'll see. And so I say that because it relates to my Rockmount experience and kind of where we started, which is founding and building a company is really, really hard.
And you have to have a lot of determination in order to do it. And you go on these ups and downs, and I certainly did. And ultimately, we didn't realize the potential of what we wanted, but... Did it work out or did it not? And in the fullness of time, I'm like, I couldn't be happier where I'm at. And thankfully, those team members, they're at great places and great companies.
A whole bunch of them work inside of the portfolio that I work on, which I'm super grateful for. And so we'll see.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I have heard this one where it's just like, well, what would you do with all that money? Well, I'd retire in a small fishing village. Yeah, totally.
I think the big thing in the first few years, and we went from zero to two, so it was particularly challenging, but not as challenging as people who went zero to three or zero to four. But I think the hardest thing is your time goes away. It inverts.
It used to be, you know, on a typical like for you or for me now, my kids are a little bit older is like Friday is like the day you're the most tired. And then you have Saturday and Sunday to recover. This totally inverts, right? For me, like when we had kids at the end of the work week was that was the most rested I was going to be. And Monday morning was the most tired I was going to be.
And like it just like completely inverted because the weekend was just so hard with little babies.
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