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Imran Khan

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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

And when you go to a public market,

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

you know you are not sheltered by three or four venture capitalists you are in a public market everyday investors saying either you are doing great or you are doing bad and that force you to make right decisions and if you're a great ceo you are seeing what's changing around you it gives you currency to make acquisitions it helps you to pivot your business in a public market and i think some of the

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

you know you are not sheltered by three or four venture capitalists you are in a public market everyday investors saying either you are doing great or you are doing bad and that force you to make right decisions and if you're a great ceo you are seeing what's changing around you it gives you currency to make acquisitions it helps you to pivot your business in a public market and i think some of the

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

you know you are not sheltered by three or four venture capitalists you are in a public market everyday investors saying either you are doing great or you are doing bad and that force you to make right decisions and if you're a great ceo you are seeing what's changing around you it gives you currency to make acquisitions it helps you to pivot your business in a public market and i think some of the

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

Greatest success stories in public market is these guys that pivoted. I always tell people, people always say that, oh, I cannot do great things in private market. And I look at it, okay, let's look at some of the best thing happened in last 25 years. And that was done by the public market companies. AWS was created by a public market company, the entire cloud business.

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

Greatest success stories in public market is these guys that pivoted. I always tell people, people always say that, oh, I cannot do great things in private market. And I look at it, okay, let's look at some of the best thing happened in last 25 years. And that was done by the public market companies. AWS was created by a public market company, the entire cloud business.

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

Greatest success stories in public market is these guys that pivoted. I always tell people, people always say that, oh, I cannot do great things in private market. And I look at it, okay, let's look at some of the best thing happened in last 25 years. And that was done by the public market companies. AWS was created by a public market company, the entire cloud business.

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

The three biggest cloud providers were public company when they started it. If you look at iPhone, that fundamentally changed that, was created by a public company. If you're talking about AI, GPU, it was created by a public company. So everybody says that, oh, I need to be a private company to do great thing. I call it a complete BS.

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

The three biggest cloud providers were public company when they started it. If you look at iPhone, that fundamentally changed that, was created by a public company. If you're talking about AI, GPU, it was created by a public company. So everybody says that, oh, I need to be a private company to do great thing. I call it a complete BS.

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

The three biggest cloud providers were public company when they started it. If you look at iPhone, that fundamentally changed that, was created by a public company. If you're talking about AI, GPU, it was created by a public company. So everybody says that, oh, I need to be a private company to do great thing. I call it a complete BS.

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

Amazing business. So great founders bring great team and great team can execute. Stock goes up, stock goes down, they execute.

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

Amazing business. So great founders bring great team and great team can execute. Stock goes up, stock goes down, they execute.

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

Amazing business. So great founders bring great team and great team can execute. Stock goes up, stock goes down, they execute.

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 the thing is that I think if you talk to all the CEOs that I know who are public market CEOs and historically private market CEOs, if they come to your show, they will say they became a better company for being a public company because public market investors think about the business Because there's so many players.

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 the thing is that I think if you talk to all the CEOs that I know who are public market CEOs and historically private market CEOs, if they come to your show, they will say they became a better company for being a public company because public market investors think about the business Because there's so many players.

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 the thing is that I think if you talk to all the CEOs that I know who are public market CEOs and historically private market CEOs, if they come to your show, they will say they became a better company for being a public company because public market investors think about the business Because there's so many players.

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

When there's so many players care about your business, they are looking at your business in so many different ways. They're telling you things that you're not going to see.

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

When there's so many players care about your business, they are looking at your business in so many different ways. They're telling you things that you're not going to see.

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

When there's so many players care about your business, they are looking at your business in so many different ways. They're telling you things that you're not going to see.

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

No, revenue multiple is a BS multiple, right? Like, why would somebody give a shit about revenue multiple? Why do we spend so much time on it then? And why is it a BS multiple? So when I look at a business, so let's say a business does $100 revenue and they're losing money. If I look at the business and say that, okay, they have a sustainable growth path of, let's say, 25%.