ex-VC, now building stuff for Founders
Joined April 2014
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14 Mar 2023
Pour tout comprendre sur l'affaire SVB 👇
13 Mar 2023
Silicon Valley Bank était LA banque emblématique des startup américaine 🇺🇸
Sa faillite a failli déclencher la prochaine crise financière
Voici ce qu'il faut savoir de la situation (et comment préparer votre patrimoine à la prochaine crise) 👇
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14 Mar 2023
100% agree!
13 Mar 2023
What a weird time to be in tech 🙃
Literally one year ago, tech companies were synonyms with quick success, easy money, euphoria, work from anywhere with the best salaries, crazy valuations with hardly any revenues.
Today? wow, completely different story 🤯.
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8 Mar 2023
For sure Gen AI represents a significant technological advance. But would lots of VCs make money out of it?
There are a few skeptics in the Sillicon Valley.
ft.com/content/5671094e-6b09…
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7 Mar 2023
Taking listed software companies private is the new cool.
After the $8bn acquisition of Coupa Software by Thoma Bravo in dec 23, Silver Lake and Canadian pension fund bid $12bn for Qualtrics.
ft.com/content/7be0f99a-266d…
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7 Mar 2023
▶️ For sereral buyout firms, many public tech companies are trading below their fair value estimates. Companies from the BVP NASDAQ Emerging Cloud Index are currently trading at 5.5x (median) vs 14x in early 2021.
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7 Mar 2023
▶️ Software-as-a-service companies with subscription models have a growth potential and steady cash flow making them good candidates for leverage.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the topic 🙂
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7 Mar 2023
▶️ Markets are tougher than in 2021 and some shareholders (founders, investors) are becoming increasingly resigned to accept lower offers.
▶️ PE firms are sitting on upward of $2.5 trillion in dry powder. For example, Thoma Bravo adds record $32 billion in new capital.
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Erwan Bernard retweeted
6 Mar 2023
Bain Capital Ventures just announced $1.9B in new funds
8VC just announced a $880M fund
Felicis just announced a $825M fund
SignalFire just announced a $900M fund
GGV is raising $2.5B in new funds
Khosla Ventures is raising $3B in new funds
etc.
This is not 2001.
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2 Feb 2023
FCF is the best indicator of the health of your company....the old expression "Cash in King" has never been more important. Watch #tech's comeback in 2023...it is being led by FCF. Smart words from @GavinSBaker
7 Sep 2022
1) Interesting to hear CEOs answer the question, "what drives shareholder value and equity returns?"
So many answers.
There is only one correct answer: growing FCF/share.
And if going to burn, then the incremental FCF/share in out years must be *materially* higher.
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1 Feb 2023
Interesting thoughts on ChatGPT and why it matters for SaaS startups by @chrija 👇
medium.com/point-nine-news/q…
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31 Jan 2023
RT @tariqkrim: Nous espérons que ce contenu que nous avons noté va nous servir de matériaux pour réfléchir et créer, avoir des idées.
David…
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31 Jan 2023
La productivité est remise en cause par les nouvelles plateformes d'IA
Thread intéressant de @tariqkrim 👇
31 Jan 2023
1. L’ère numérique nous a exposé à beaucoup plus de contenus que nous ne sommes capables d’absorber.
L'équivalent de 34 GB de données tous les jours. Bonjour l’indigestion cognitive !
(Ou encore l'équivalent de 174 journaux selon le Guardian)
theguardian.com/media/mediam…
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Erwan Bernard retweeted
17 Jan 2023
3/ Cash is now hard to come by; investors are expecting solid unit economics & earlier profitability. Everything is immediately 5-10X harder. As such, survival is now depedent on hard-core, disciplined, top decile business execution, which no one learned in the past 5 years.
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23 May 2022
Worried about the burn rate now?
The answer isn't slowing down sales, or your sales team
But there are things you can now that are easy and make a difference
10 Simple Ideas To Lower The Burn: 🔽🔟⬇️
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Erwan Bernard retweeted
5 May 2022
So what should founders do?
— lengthen runway. Extract max growth for min burn
— focus on biz fundamentals. Negative gross margins & high burn are fatal right now
— adjust expectations. New rule of thumb = 20x ARR not 100x
— run a tight process & go wide when you need to raise.
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Erwan Bernard retweeted
4 May 2022
I was at Amzn early '00s when we lost 95% of our market cap. Later at FB I negotiated a down-round in '09, and then in '12 our stock dropped 50% post-IPO. I was on the board of a public company that went bankrupt (Borders) and a start-up that went under (Hello). Some lessons:
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Erwan Bernard retweeted
26 Apr 2022
Founders you need to hear the truth:
The funding market has changed.
That raise you wanted, you aren’t going to get.
You are raising too much with too little.
You will go out, burn lots of discussions raising too much.
Then come back with smaller request.
Don’t do this
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Erwan Bernard retweeted
26 Apr 2022
✍️ Following @team_rooser 's Series A yesterday, @talexgeorge & I spent some time looking at the most recent rounds in B2B marketplaces in order to cook the new "B2B marketplace funding napkin" vintage 2022.
Hope the read insightful to y'all!
medium.com/point-nine-news/t…
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