How to value startups (VC School) + Creating Diamonds from Air with Aether’s Ryan Shearman (Climate) | E1482

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

For today’s VC Sunday school, Molly asks Jason about valuation- valuing startups (1:44). Then for This Week in Climate Startups, Molly sits down with Ryan Shearman, CEO of Aether, to talk about how Aether makes diamonds using carbon extracted from the atmosphere (37:22).

(0:00) Cold Open
(1:44) VCSS: Valuation- reconsidering valuation, estimating valuation as a function of multiples
(13:16) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(14:33) Why are some companies so secretive about their valuation?
(23:17) BetterHelp - Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/twist
(24:31) Bridges, seed extensions, pre-series A
(30:38) Microsoft for Startups Hub - Apply in 5 minutes, no funding required, sign up at http://aka.ms/thisweekinstartups
(31:54) Toss to This Week in Climate Startups
(37:22) TWiCS: Ryan Shearman, CEO of Aether (making diamonds from atmospheric carbon)

Transcript

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0:00.0	There are things that have been slotted in.
0:01.9	Pre-seed, right.
0:05.4	And pre-series A or seed extension.
0:09.4	So these three terms have come up.
0:11.2	How do you, do you,
0:12.9	did anybody ever give you a definition of these?
0:15.7	I'm wondering, can you define what they are?
0:20.0	Not, no.
0:21.1	And they get, and they're showing up in all the books too.
0:23.4	Right, like, and nobody knows.
0:25.0	And it kind of is the answer seems to be like,
0:29.2	we made that up because there was a lot of money around.
0:33.4	Well, here's the thing.
0:34.0	The reason I asked you for the definitions
0:35.9	is because I don't know them.
0:37.0	Oh, man.
0:37.8	I've been doing this for 11 years.
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