Mitchell Green
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1,004 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 24 Mar
Mitchell Green’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I just think there's too many knuckleheads.
The worst is somebody who went to Stanford Business School, worked for 18 months at a startup, and now comes in, is a venture investor, and now they're experts.
Be humble.
Don't act like you know, because most of these, probably myself included, have never actually run.
If you want to sort of venture fund or growth equity fund, I've done that.
I can give people advice on that.
But like, if you're trying to figure out how to build out a great sales team, go talk to great sales leaders.
And get advice from that.
So I actually think that's the best way that VCs and private equity people can help founders and entrepreneurs is connect them with people who have done it before and help them recruit.
I truly think that's why Sequoia and Benchmark are great and Index are great because they help founders and entrepreneurs recruit amazing talent.
And people want to work for those funds portfolio companies.
Exactly.
100%.
Great.
Well, that's about it.
because that's the price that they paid in the deal.
Like if you paid these asinine prices on the way in.
By the way, what's really interesting to me in the market right now is this like people that spin out of like, or like leave Anthropic or OpenAI and raise money at like $2 billion or a billion dollars for a freaking idea.
Like there's nothing more than an idea and a napkin.
To us, that seems complete lunacy.
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