Johannes Gemmingen

Investor and Content Creator

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

@bundeskanzler @DFB_Team Was ist es nun, Leute? Soll man auch mal scheitern dürfen oder nicht?

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

"So You Want to be a VC"

Im enjoying this week in Boston visiting students promoting my new book - Runnin Down a Dream. Not surprisingly, many ask me about trying to break into venture capital. I wrote a letter answering this question 15 years ago. I would send it out when people inquired. I'm making it public for the first time - with zero modifications.

1) I think it holds up well
2) make sure and read my new book also
3) I probably can't help with followups (as suggested in the letter)

Hope you find it useful. Good luck!

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

@ClayNorris10 A great read, thank you!

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

When trying to convince investors of an early stage investment opportunity, you’re trying to get consensus for a non consensus idea.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

Germany: Let’s let everyone into our country.

Also Germany: Only Germans who pay taxes can come back.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

Hot take that shouldn’t be hot:

Using this crisis to shame people living in Dubai or the Gulf for “not paying their 40-50% tax like most Europeans” misses the point entirely.

This isn’t a revenue problem.

It’s a spending problem.

Fix the leak before demanding more water.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

@drhossamsamy65 There’s no roundabout there

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

@paulg Show me the incentive, I’ll show you the outcome.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

How can I stop myself from making the same mistake so many investors make: following the market more than conviction?

Practice I guess… the 10.000 hours rule.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

If you’re selling something you have to scream it from the mountain top. Figuratively.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

While I’m not sure I ever will raise a fund - maybe I will, maybe I won’t - my aim is to act like a VC even before being one so that I gain valuable and ultimately transferable skills.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

Once our basic needs are met, many people don’t want to work anymore. However there’s something I came to realise:
You may not want to work anymore but you want to build something!

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

One of the best speeches from the All-In Summit. Can’t wait to read it!

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

A quick book update. Many @BG2Pod listeners made it clear they wanted "me" to read the audiobook. I can confirm that I am the narrator! (you may need to go 1.3X however) Pre-order the audio here: https://t.co/oiSywLMSxG

Just got my first hard-covers also. 2.24.26 launch.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

If you were wildly successful in your first couple of years, wouldn’t every following year feel like a failure?

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

I’m 33 now. I know a lot of people and keep meeting new ones. If this is only the beginning, how many people will I know in 30 years time? Fascinating thought.

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

My YouTube channel crossed 1k subs! #1kcreator https://t.co/1u2VC9nks6

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

@theindicator @ikeresquivel Same problem here. I’m in the UK.

[Sebastian Kurz @sebastiankurz]

Vor allem braucht es in der #EU einen Kurswechsel hin zu mehr #Subsidiarität. Die EU muss wieder stärker werden in den großen Fragen und sich in Bereichen zurücknehmen, wo die Mitgliedsstaaten besser selber entscheiden können! 3/3

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

#ard EUR 6.0 Milliarden pro Jahr hierfür: https://t.co/GVdVx2kwPt

[Johannes Gemmingen @JohGemm]

Congratulations to living legend @rogerfederer