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

It's just very inefficient, and people need to think about where they're going to buy the food, and it's just extra cognitive load.

You're spending more time doing that than you are doing something that's high leverage.

I really dislike the culture of, like, pampering everyone or, like, taking care of them as if you're their parents.

I think Google is, like, the worst of that.

Maybe a little bit, but that's not the reason why we don't have a chef anymore.

We really liked the idea of having a chef.

And again, the chef we got was awesome.

I really liked having her.

But I think that sometimes doing more that's not core can lead to logistical burdens, and it's better to focus your energy on things that directly lead to growth or indirectly lead to growth.

Yeah, so when we rented out our building in San Francisco, we needed to get signage on the side of the building.

And it was zoned or something, so when we got our primary floor, we were forced to take over the retail space.

And it was, like, this empty barber shop.

It was, like, really dungy, like, you know, I'd been out of business for probably a couple years.

We moved in and, you know, everything was fine and, you know, we have the sign on the side of the building, great.

But I'd walk in every day and I'd see this, like, empty barber shop

and it would just piss me off, because, like, I'm paying for that, but, like, there's nothing in it.

Like, it's a waste of, you know, it's a waste of everything.

At the same time, a huge complaint I have with San Francisco, everything closes really early.

Like, it's a big problem, especially in the financial district where our office is, and there's a lot of really great startups that want to, like, push themselves hard, but you cannot find a cafe, you can't even find a place to eat past, like, 6, 7 p.m.

most days.

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