Vinod Khosla

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1,033 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard Jul 2025

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In vain most VCs give polite feedback to an entrepreneur, they're doing a disservice.

They're basically saying you're doing great.

Don't examine anything.

You know, makes you feel good as an entrepreneur, but doesn't help you build a better company.

And the only things that make you feel better are things that change your thinking or challenge your thinking.

So it's an important characteristic for founders to keep in mind.

What are they looking for?

The best help or just people who will go away?

So it's a style that's different.

We don't think of investments.

We've never calculated uh never means not in the last ten years.

I can think of I can't think of a single instance where we calculated an IRR.

Not one.

An investment firm that never calculates IRRs because we want to build something significant and then the economics will work out.

So that's our approach.

But we do wanna make increase the probability of success of the founder.

And we wanna m increase the magnitude of the potential success also by thinking about should you do X or Y.

Founders underestimate that.

So let's say a founder is selling 10% of a company.

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