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Imran Khan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
513 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

I would have done it a little bit earlier.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

Yeah, or you ignore things because you feel like things are working. Because the reality is when you're growing that fast, you're driving that expectation higher. So you constantly have to think about it, that how I'm going to maintain that growth. So one of the thing that zero to 400, 400 to a billion,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

Yeah, or you ignore things because you feel like things are working. Because the reality is when you're growing that fast, you're driving that expectation higher. So you constantly have to think about it, that how I'm going to maintain that growth. So one of the thing that zero to 400, 400 to a billion,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

Yeah, or you ignore things because you feel like things are working. Because the reality is when you're growing that fast, you're driving that expectation higher. So you constantly have to think about it, that how I'm going to maintain that growth. So one of the thing that zero to 400, 400 to a billion,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

We should have planned that in 2015 to get to 400 to a billion, a billion to three billion, right? So that's something, you know, but you're growing so fast and you're distracted, you know, you didn't get time to plan all these things, right? Do you think that's fairly valid today? I think Evan is one of a generation founder and the user they amass is incredible.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

We should have planned that in 2015 to get to 400 to a billion, a billion to three billion, right? So that's something, you know, but you're growing so fast and you're distracted, you know, you didn't get time to plan all these things, right? Do you think that's fairly valid today? I think Evan is one of a generation founder and the user they amass is incredible.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

We should have planned that in 2015 to get to 400 to a billion, a billion to three billion, right? So that's something, you know, but you're growing so fast and you're distracted, you know, you didn't get time to plan all these things, right? Do you think that's fairly valid today? I think Evan is one of a generation founder and the user they amass is incredible.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So I think people continue to misunderstand him. What do they misunderstand about him? There's a very few people who know how to build a great product. And he's one of them. And he has the skill to, sometimes when you build a great product, you don't have that install base. He has the install base. So I think with Evan, you're getting that install base and a track record of building great product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So I think people continue to misunderstand him. What do they misunderstand about him? There's a very few people who know how to build a great product. And he's one of them. And he has the skill to, sometimes when you build a great product, you don't have that install base. He has the install base. So I think with Evan, you're getting that install base and a track record of building great product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So I think people continue to misunderstand him. What do they misunderstand about him? There's a very few people who know how to build a great product. And he's one of them. And he has the skill to, sometimes when you build a great product, you don't have that install base. He has the install base. So I think with Evan, you're getting that install base and a track record of building great product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So that's why I think it's a mistake to underestimate Evan. How did the 200 million Alibaba investment come to be? So Joe was a big fan of Alibaba from day one. Of Snap. So Snap, sorry. A big fan of Snap from day one. And when Evan offered me the job, you know, I went to Joe for his advice that, hey, should I take that job? He said, absolutely, you should take that job. Evan is a great founder.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So that's why I think it's a mistake to underestimate Evan. How did the 200 million Alibaba investment come to be? So Joe was a big fan of Alibaba from day one. Of Snap. So Snap, sorry. A big fan of Snap from day one. And when Evan offered me the job, you know, I went to Joe for his advice that, hey, should I take that job? He said, absolutely, you should take that job. Evan is a great founder.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So that's why I think it's a mistake to underestimate Evan. How did the 200 million Alibaba investment come to be? So Joe was a big fan of Alibaba from day one. Of Snap. So Snap, sorry. A big fan of Snap from day one. And when Evan offered me the job, you know, I went to Joe for his advice that, hey, should I take that job? He said, absolutely, you should take that job. Evan is a great founder.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

And he said something that is very humbling. He said, listen, if the company works, you're going to look great. If it doesn't work, all the blame will go to Evan because it's his company. So what are you upset or worried about? I'm like, okay, when you say it that way.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

And he said something that is very humbling. He said, listen, if the company works, you're going to look great. If it doesn't work, all the blame will go to Evan because it's his company. So what are you upset or worried about? I'm like, okay, when you say it that way.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

And he said something that is very humbling. He said, listen, if the company works, you're going to look great. If it doesn't work, all the blame will go to Evan because it's his company. So what are you upset or worried about? I'm like, okay, when you say it that way.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

But stop with him.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

But stop with him.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

But stop with him.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

So once I invest, joined, you know, I told him that I joined. He said, listen, we would love to invest.