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If any VC firms want to hire me to vet investment ideas I'm available. "No, do not give the pizza startup $445 million." Simple.
by oldstrangers 3y ago
If any VC firms want to hire me to vet investment ideas I'm available. "No, do not give the pizza startup $445 million." Simple.
- jacquesm 3y agoI do DD for a living. It's rarely that simple. But SoftBank is a special case.
- asfarley 3y agoHow did you get into the field?
- jacquesm 3y agoI've been a small time investor for decades and would usually be the one to handle hard tech issues at the start-ups I invested in if they ran into some kind of wall (scaling, hard to find bugs). Someone (another investor) noticed that and tipped off a friend who worked for a really large fund, they hired me to do a DD job on a company in Germany and that got me my launching customer. Syndicated deals grow the network and bit by bit it became a pretty serious player. Now doing anywhere from 20 to 45 jobs per year depending on the economy.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoIf any VC firms want to hire me, I'll definitely take $445 million to make an automated gourmet Mac'n'cheese startup. I promise it'll take over the world, especially if I can give myself a multimillion salary.
- MattGrommes 3y agoI'll do it for only 10% of the investment. "Instead of giving them $445M, give me $44M and then don't do the pizza thing. You'll save $400M. You can't afford not to give me this money."