Brian Ji
266 posts



Peter Thiel on the single most important event in the history of Facebook.



It's been 30 Under 30 with money for years -- finding undiscovered and overlooked talent is a different game. Looking for other early stage belief capital -- lots of great orgs here! #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

.@milesgrimshaw was 2 years out of college when he met @jaltma and partnered with him on Lattice. most founders would’ve been lucky to partner w/ Miles that decade, irrespective of his age it’s less about associate vs GP and more about they human being you’re working with

Fun fact: during Box’s Series B we were in the midst of pivoting to the enterprise, with an untested freemium model, and running out of runway. The strategy was speculative. Every partner we pitched passed, but one associate (@mamoonha) fought to push the deal through, saving us.



I'm seeing 4 sets of vSaaS companies today... Classic: Selling SaaS into one industry Digital Franchises: SaaS + Business In A Box + Ops Support Vertically Integrated: M&A led + SaaS + Ops Takeover Hybrid: SaaS + M&A + Selling their SaaS to other companies Let's go deeper...












