https://minutesof.com/on/fundraising/ Everyone on the record about fundraising: 19 verbatim quotes from 5 people, September 2022 to July 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:59 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/c45ea03a-bf5f-4d2e-9c42-49e96666d877/ https://minutesof.com/q/c45ea03a-bf5f-4d2e-9c42-49e96666d877/ “And today people are just showing up at the door and saying, take the money. In many cases, with the implication, if you don't take it, they'll give it to the competitor.” — Bill Gurley, Forbes Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:00:14 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/33328e91-96e3-4a86-a1e8-b57706d01435/ https://minutesof.com/q/33328e91-96e3-4a86-a1e8-b57706d01435/ “They all now believe in network effects and power laws. And so if a company's working, they proactively go to them and ask them to take money, which is what you just referred to.” — Bill Gurley, Forbes Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:00:14 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/6779b466-88ec-46ee-852b-22cae788c685/ https://minutesof.com/q/6779b466-88ec-46ee-852b-22cae788c685/ “I was on a hot Friday afternoon and everybody at the endowment had left. They got completely blown off and then it started pouring rain.” — Gavin Baker, Generating Alpha Podcast Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:54:53 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/3b7857d4-d51b-4018-9757-837e6b45d960/ https://minutesof.com/q/3b7857d4-d51b-4018-9757-837e6b45d960/ “The president asked Michael Dell and I to go out and raise a $100,000,000,000 for these Trump accounts and we're well on our way.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:55:46 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/ca982319-8c30-482f-9daa-5b2284cccaad/ https://minutesof.com/q/ca982319-8c30-482f-9daa-5b2284cccaad/ “It's gonna be an incredible IPO. It's gonna raise about 75 it's gonna raise about $75,000,000,000.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Thu, 28 May 2026 17:00:15 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/2e31e5d2-4194-47c7-9a1d-f7ab119b6eb0/ https://minutesof.com/q/2e31e5d2-4194-47c7-9a1d-f7ab119b6eb0/ “So venture capitalists typically take preferred stock, and it has a term called liquidation preference, which means in a sale, they get the option to basically treat it like debt.” — Bill Gurley, Chris Williamson Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:16 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/31de15b5-68e7-49d3-b472-5ff831b08736/ https://minutesof.com/q/31de15b5-68e7-49d3-b472-5ff831b08736/ “Well, if you're the disciplined one and there's six players with $500,000,000 each hiring salespeople, you're not going to matter.” — Bill Gurley, Young and Profiting Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:01:05 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/f5151417-8649-4570-900f-ca38eeb6fd93/ https://minutesof.com/q/f5151417-8649-4570-900f-ca38eeb6fd93/ “I say it's not your father's venture capital. This is a sport of Kings world we've evolved into and it's fight to the death.” — Bill Gurley, Young and Profiting Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:01:05 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/16efa965-b8dd-4e1f-9cbe-d2e0b9d136e5/ https://minutesof.com/q/16efa965-b8dd-4e1f-9cbe-d2e0b9d136e5/ “But I I think it's unquestionably true. Like there's just zero interest. And so that's a tough call for someone that's in a business that may have good unit economics that's not AI.” — Bill Gurley, Young and Profiting Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:01:05 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/8177fc33-cd61-4424-aaea-f05b0a74f87c/ https://minutesof.com/q/8177fc33-cd61-4424-aaea-f05b0a74f87c/ “Like if you're on the finance committee, you can go raise money from every bank around the country. That just doesn't seem appropriate.” — Bill Gurley, Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:34:22 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/d8b087a9-0d6f-4746-bf78-1a06e70d41d4/ https://minutesof.com/q/d8b087a9-0d6f-4746-bf78-1a06e70d41d4/ “One thing that's really amazing that most Americans probably don't realize is once your senator or congressman goes on a committee, they start fundraising in other jurisdictions.” — Bill Gurley, Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:34:22 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/40389807-c542-438d-b0cd-f559e708cfaf/ https://minutesof.com/q/40389807-c542-438d-b0cd-f559e708cfaf/ “If these reports are true and they're gonna raise another 70 to 100,000,000,000, they would have over a 100,000,000,000 of cash on their balance sheet.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:23 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/c515dc0a-f93f-4965-ad38-6ebed38d9ab7/ https://minutesof.com/q/c515dc0a-f93f-4965-ad38-6ebed38d9ab7/ “I raised, like, $2,200,000 from friends and, like, networking to other people that Danny had introduced me and that my friends introduced me to.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/491525ce-1439-4bd4-850d-b0fdd152a9ca/ https://minutesof.com/q/491525ce-1439-4bd4-850d-b0fdd152a9ca/ “And Danny's like, I'll introduce you to all the VCs in the Valley. I had met two of them from Google's board meetings, Mike Moritz and John Doors.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/7b43ac1e-7f41-457a-a57e-250bea958042/ https://minutesof.com/q/7b43ac1e-7f41-457a-a57e-250bea958042/ “there's no fucking way you can pay for the scale of clusters that are being planned to be built next year for OpenAI until unless they raise, like, 50 to $100,000,000,000, which I think they will raise that, like, end of this year, early next year.” — Dylan Patel, Dwarkesh Patel Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:59:36 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/59d40573-9077-4a2a-8ba7-7dbc17de95d2/ https://minutesof.com/q/59d40573-9077-4a2a-8ba7-7dbc17de95d2/ “Yeah. People get overly, focused on this last round valuation thing. Like, it is I can't tell you how many founders I've had a conversation with where it's clear the number one objective in their function about the next financing is to clear the bar of the last round. And it just shouldn't matter that much.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:05:50 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/81e44dda-ccc3-495f-add2-6334ff802d7c/ https://minutesof.com/q/81e44dda-ccc3-495f-add2-6334ff802d7c/ “I wouldn't have had to spend money like a fool. They nail it yet again. The negative reflexivity that occurs when you have a headline valuation,” — Brad Gerstner, This Week in Startups Fri, 12 Jan 2024 05:28:40 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/c1488c72-704b-4ab7-9ccd-7fd6582ce89a/ https://minutesof.com/q/c1488c72-704b-4ab7-9ccd-7fd6582ce89a/ “And after GPT-five releases, if he goes to the market and says like, Hey, I want to raise $100,000,000,000 at $500,000,000,000 valuation, I'm sure the market would give it to him.” — Dylan Patel, Latent Space Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:16:28 +0000 fundraising https://minutesof.com/q/b79c37e4-9b3e-4028-907e-25adb2cb8db4/ https://minutesof.com/q/b79c37e4-9b3e-4028-907e-25adb2cb8db4/ “The individuals who possess a strong storytelling trait, an ability to paint a picture that elicits emotional context in the listener in a way that drives them to act is a person that can infinitely fundraise, that can attract and recruit the best employees, that can sell customers on a product that doesn't even exist yet.” — David Friedberg, The Julia La Roche Show Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:21:04 +0000 fundraising