Jason Lemkin
speaker
25,747 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 4d ago
Jason Lemkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because that's really what's happening.
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And to some extent, even though that sounds bullshit, it's true.
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Venture syndicates, I've been in boards where the company just flattens out and it needs to get ruthlessly.
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efficient.
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Venge, it's just not our DNA.
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It's not how we roll.
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It's a syndicate of five different people.
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Oftentimes these assets are better owned by a single owner who says, look, this is the way it's going to be.
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This is what we're going to do.
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I mean I don't know if you saw the CEO of Bending Spoons.
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He made a wonderfully controversial take where he said something to the tune of, you know, we don't basically get all excited about the title founder.
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We don't want to know what you did.
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He's basically comment is we don't want you know what you did 10 years ago when
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founded this.
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We want to know what you're doing now.
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And what it's basically saying is we can't do what it takes to fix this thing at 3x revenues.
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So we'll sell it to you, take your stock at 12 times revenue, because you'll be hard-nosed enough to cut extraneous costs, raise prices, accept a fair amount of churn, and plow truth.
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Just interesting, but also not crazy.
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It's kind of an interesting comment on how institutions can determine outcomes.
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It's not all rational economics.
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