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“We call it community powered because we don't do really any outbound. All of our deal flow comes from those 50 founders in New York. And we run it all on a Slack channel where people submit deals and decks, and there's like, lively discussion about these deals. And we've become quite active. So in the eleven months that we've been around, we've done 28 deals.”
...our deal flow comes from those 50, founders in New York. And we run it all, on a Slack channel where people submit deals and decks, and there's, like, lively discussion about these deals. And then we
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Business Mechanics9:48 – 10:13
“Most incubators that are part of a university are very restricted in who can come. We have some restriction, but we've managed to set it up so that we have all the deal flow we need.”
...all the deal flow we need, and we can fulfill our two missions. So we have a dual mission at Berkeley Skydeck.
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Business Mechanics6:54 – 7:15
...Deal flow is really important, but it's always stunning and sobering to realize how often you meet a really great company and don't do the deal. My mental rule of thumb is if you meet 10 great companies, you probably will be lucky enough to do one or
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...flow. Because if you're not seeing 10 great deals, you're probably not gonna do one great deal, which means the psychological tax for doing one great deal is you pass on nine deals or you don't win them. That's what keeps you awake at night. If you'r
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...the deal at a billion, but I'm gonna give Harry another 7% of the company. And they're always at least 10 x. Like, there's a quid pro quo. It's not 10 x. It's 10 x from what I'm paying as a growth investor.
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It sold $454,000,000 in cash to Zozo, a Japanese based, fashion company. So a bit of a let down, but still a 9 figure exit. It's a, interesting to see what we call in the industry, singles and doubles. Singles and doubles are a great part of our indu
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...deals. They go in Yes. And, and, yeah, I'll do the deal at a billion, but I'm gonna give Harry another 7% of the company. And they're always at least 10 x. Like, there's a quid pro quo. It's not 10 x. It's 10 x from what I'm paying as a growth invest
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So to me, there's a missing piece here that led to this sale because it seems like the company, the funding, the growth all had it pipped to do a lot more than this exit. I don't want to talk crap about someone's 9 figure exit. Right? But it just fee
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...you know, Flow's $300,000,000 check from Andreessen. I think people kind of forget pretty quickly these days. So I don't think even reputationally it's that challenging unless it's really, really freaking bad. And even then, it's kind of forgotten. T
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the price per share of a current round is, I won't tell you exactly, but six or eight times your price that you came into the round, try sell a third. And when you get to the pre IPO round or in the IPO across that kind of timeframe, try sell a third
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...the deal gets done and it's all cash, does the money come in one go? Like, does the founder just get, like, $200,000,000 in their account? Is that how it works? Most all cash deals have a single closing and, all the money gets transferred on that day
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the economic value of the remaining percentage is greater than when we raise the new money. And are there issues in terms of sometimes we have naive founders who have taken perhaps, you know, money on terms of you know where I'm going with this? I I'
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“Can founders take $100K+ off the table at Series A without revenue?”
Crafting a story such that I get whatever I want whenever I want. And so, like, could founders take money off the table on a really good series a even without any revenue but just having identified pr
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tactical advice34:28 – 34:45
...flows. One percent of revenues go back into CapEx. I put a multiple on the cash flows and based on how long that I see this long secular shift happening and the rate at growth. There's a long secular shift, and then they're gonna add share on top of
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