The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
01:06:04 · Harry Stebbings, Alex Mashrabov
[01:06:04] S1: If you are in a billion today, 10,000,000,000 in twelve months, why do you peg the next fundraise? If you're in a billion, say, conservative multiple, you'd be like 15. But if you're hitting 10 next year, you're like paying end of year 80. [01:06:21] S0: Look, we are not chasing just the valuation because, again, the goal is just to make sure that the company can be sustainable over the time in public markets. So there is a lot of company building to be done beyond just chasing the revenue. But I just do believe- [01:06:34] S1: But you want to be public at some point? [01:06:36] S0: Yeah, do believe that Hexcel has great potential to be bigger than Applebee and Shopify. Fundamentally, building is one part of that. Shopify, one layer of infrastructure. Then for coding, there is obviously a cloud, there is codex. But what matters is distribution over the time. Distribution matters. You know that this better than any other [01:06:55] S1: It is my business. That's why we do what we do. Exactly. Dude, I cannot thank you enough for being so amazing on the show. You've been fantastic. I've loved doing it, you can tell. And you've been an amazing guest, so I really appreciate you joining me today. [01:07:07] S0: Thank you so much. It's a pleasure.
01:07:11 · Harry Stebbings
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