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Start free trial →The Peel with Turner Novak · Startups & Venture · October 2026
The Felicis founder, citing his own fund's data, on why he will pay up for companies that might grow a thousandfold. He says investors mocked the multiple Felicis paid for Supabase, and that the price stopped mattering once the company took off.
…a huge company. So, the way we think about success and margin of error is that I want a company with a growth path so promising, I like to use the word 100x. We talked about 10x. When I look at a company, the very first thing I ask, is there a true 100x revenue growth potential in this company?
Grow 100x revenue for 10x.
…it doesn't matter what price you paid. You know what I mean? Like, the founder is not going to tell you my company is 10 billion when he has like 100K revenue. It's going to be expensive, but it's going to be expensive with a mad function. So if you basically pick a company in the right place at the right time that has so much growth function, then valuation becomes absolutely not important. And if you're so hung up on the valuation, you're always going to miss those outlier companies. Like the same thing happened to Google. I mean, they like, they basically said like two PhD students, people like, it's never going to work. Notion, say, by the way, we're the only VC that invested in Notion and Canva. Like Notion engineer, like I remember Ivan, like now like it's at scale. Every VC wants to be his friend. We basically wrote him the first check on the back of a napkin, right?…
it's kind
of a different product in Canva and like different customer that they're going after.
But the point is that everybody in the world wants to be creative. Do you want to feel like dumb when you use a product? Like the first thing is you open Adobe. I don't know what the fuck to do with this product. I mean, I did. I opened Photoshop. I mean, wow, like I need to go back to graduate…