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The Peel with Turner Novak

Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories. Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 166 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Peel with Turner Novak

“We had about 160 M&A exits, and not a single one of those companies was led by an expert. Not one. … If you're a specialist, you are so deep in subject matter that you're going to look at a batshit crazy way of doing things and you're going to say that can't be done. It's easier to say it won't work than say it will work, because you are so deep, you've been trained for 20 years.” — Aydin Senkut, The Peel with Turner Novak
Aydin Senkut · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You look at all the companies where we have the highest ownership, where we got the best valuation. None of them have made it to the top. And every single one of our outlier companies, oh my God, we barely eked a 1% ownership. The valuation was horrible. I was having heart attacks. … If you're so hung up on the valuation, you're always going to miss those outlier companies.” — Aydin Senkut, The Peel with Turner Novak
Aydin Senkut · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think a lot of the best researchers in the world want to work for somebody who's kind of like them. And, you know, no offense, but Sam's more of like a business person.” — Matt Murphy, The Peel with Turner Novak
Matt Murphy · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This is my 11th fund, and I never, never, ever in any of the funds had a single slide. And they accepted. Honestly, you'd be surprised. You know what? Not only do they accept it, I feel that they often find it refreshing.” — Oren Zeev, The Peel with Turner Novak
Oren Zeev · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Mistakes of omissions are much worse than mistakes of commission because if you do a deal that you shouldn't have done, you lose your money, but if you don't do a deal that you should have done, maybe you lost 100x the money or 200x the money that you could have made.” — Oren Zeev, The Peel with Turner Novak
Oren Zeev · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you're able to tell me how to properly solve the identity problem, I'll be able to tell you how to solve the fraud problem… we haven't correctly solved like online identity… to like reasonable levels of confidence. But like, you know, that's the fundamental problem of fraud payments is identity.” — Darragh Buckley, The Peel with Turner Novak
Darragh Buckley · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Imagine if your friend is an air traffic controller and they show up to meet for you to coffee and they're saying like, I've had the most exciting day at work. You'd be like, no, I don't want excitement from my air traffic controllers… I think you want the same from your banker. I think you want your banker to, in fact, enjoy uneventful days.” — Darragh Buckley, The Peel with Turner Novak
Darragh Buckley · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You can be a billionaire without having to show returns because you raised one $10 billion fund.” — Bilal Zuberi, The Peel with Turner Novak
Bilal Zuberi · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Hardware is still hard. I really encourage people to not let VCs tell you that hardware has become easy. It has not. In fact, it's become in some ways harder.” — Bilal Zuberi, The Peel with Turner Novak
Bilal Zuberi · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“In Santa Monica, if we go out of business, I want the hole to be so deep that it can never be filled. … A lot of these VC backed companies will over 20 years go out of business. … They squeak out of business. … I wanted to blow a hole in the ground.” — Jamie Siminoff, The Peel with Turner Novak
Jamie Siminoff · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →
“VCs are actually kind of surprisingly lazy on digging through the finances of these companies. I think because they know they're so messed up, they don't even care.” — Jamie Siminoff, The Peel with Turner Novak
Jamie Siminoff · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You have streets in the US where you look at the end of the cul-de-sac and there are three neighbouring homes and each one of them has a different set of tax codes. So I need to know which side of the street you are on in order to know how to calculate your taxes correctly.” — Tomer London, The Peel with Turner Novak
Tomer London · 24 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Peel with Turner Novak is hosted by Turner Novak .

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