Nico Laqua

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1,048 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 30 May

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Corgi Insurance: The Most Intense Workplace Culture in America: 7 Days Per Week, Founder Sleeps in Office, Corgi Cafe Open 24 Hours a Day, 60% of First 30 Employees Have Corgi Tattoos | The Journey from $0 to $2.6BN Valuation in Just 2 Years · 30 May 2026 podcast

If your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every week, then you will not have a place at Corgi.

I don't sleep a lot.

I think the average night, couple hours, probably three to four hours.

Yeah, yeah.

I have a mattress there.

I would rather measure my lifespan in victories than yours.

I mean, I think the answer to that is pretty easy.

I get a lot of backlash, the death threats and the DMs, you know, people think I'm nuts.

I think the number of good companies is very small.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I think you can't be afraid of losses.

Losses are, like, beautiful because, you know, you can have asymmetric upside with winning.

So I think you have to love winning, and you have to love the victories.

I think Jeff Bezos, he said something a number of years ago that has always really stuck with me.

He gave it as a baseball analogy, I guess, very American.

You know, in baseball, there's four bases, and you can score a maximum of, or there's three bases in the home plate, but you can score a maximum of four runs when you're at bat.

So if you go up to bat and every single time you swing, you try to, like, you know, hit the ball out of the park, that's a losing strategy in baseball a lot of the time because the upside is capped.

You know, you have maximum of four runs, but your probability of striking out, of scoring nothing is quite high.

In business, it doesn't quite work like that because instead of four runs resulting from a home run, a home run might result in actually infinite upside.

It might result in something like AWS popping out of nowhere.

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