" if the idea does not provide skepticism between partners, it means the business model is not disruptive enough to challenge the status quo. " Very insightful, provoking thought.
7:28 This was very insightful when he talks about his criteria he uses to decide whether or not to invest in a venture. He nailed the fact that companies that solve problems and create value are the ones that end up being very successful. Also like how earlier he mentioned that the best ventures tend to challenge the status quo and create skepticism. The disruptive ideas that change industries are usually met with skepticism (Uber, Airbnb, Beyond Meat)
@@YahiyaJasem I agree with your assessment, except when it comes to beyond meat. Vegan/vegetarian meat is a commodity with little to no barrier to entry and therefore no moat or protection from the competition. A lot of supermarkets already have their own private label vegan/vegetarian meat. Airbnb and uber benefit from economies of scale, a network effects, huge scalability, etc.
Uber "invented" taxis, and AirBnB "invented" hotels. Not really much of an improvement...but they did cause a whole hell of a lot of detrimental disruption to working people just trying to put food on their families (to quote Dubya): 1. Uber disrupted the transportation industry by making drivers earn less than minimum wage (www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-uber-driver-wages-20180518-story.html), 2. AirBnB has destroyed the hotel industry and made housing more expensive, basically having neighborhoods gentrified with tourists says FORBES MAGAZINE(!) (www.forbes.com/sites/garybarker/2020/02/21/the-airbnb-effect-on-housing-and-rent/?sh=45b1a9dd2226)... 3. Beyond Meat is pretty cool and is addressing a real need to move away from environment destroying cattle farming.
This was fascinating. I will likely copy at least some of Mr. Komisar's principles and criteria for investments when I begin making investments in companies.
Lovely, what he gets in his email he passes to someone else- great business model, I am filled with confidence in his commitment, got to love the Steve Jobs look though, lovely
Only inbound requests for meetings and reviews of pitchdecks, which is a firehose for guys like this. He probably has a completely separate inbox and phone number set up for companies he is partnered with through investmnt
should look for people who share my value and who i believe i can make a positive and constructive contribution to their own development as leaders and as entrepreneurs so you need to find that chemistry with the founding team 1 big problems 2 people who i share values with and who i believe in 3a proposition where i can create significant value and hopefully develop a business model around that
Process venture capitalists actually use when not giving keynotes: 1) call my friends, 2) see what my friend's kids are doing, 3) look at what other VCs are doing, 4) throw money at what other VCs have already funded, even though the business is probably crap, 5) only talk to people who went to a vanishingly small number of select schools and ignore everyone else because if their parents didn't have the decency to send them to the most expensive school, I probably don't want to know them, 6) call my friends, 7) repeat.
