VCs need financial skills AND founder skills to generate actual returns
“And I think, you know, there's there's a sort of feeling that we only want, you know, x to the entrepreneurs as VCs in the market, and it's complete nonsense.”
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Yeah. It's great. And I think, you know, there's there's a sort of feeling that we only want, you know, x to the entrepreneurs as VCs in the market, and it's complete nonsense. We need a mix of skills that help not only with sealing and selecting and sealing, which is that winning the deal part, but also the selling element. Like, the venture industry has to get good at generating returns, not just on paper. And so I think it's important that venture teams have a good mix of that financial acumen as well as the maybe the more sort of founder type profile, and and there's no right or wrong. There's no one or the other. We need both in the industry. So I think that's great. And then maybe we could just talk a little bit about a recent transaction. Have is there a deal you've done recently that you can talk about?
Yeah. So our our most kind of very recent
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Rupert West argues that venture capital teams need a mix of both financial expertise and founder-type profiles to succeed. He pushes back against the idea that VCs should only hire one type of person, emphasizing that the industry must get better at generating actual returns, not just paper gains.
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West challenges the common industry bias toward hiring only certain profiles in VC, making a case for diverse skill sets to improve actual exit performance.
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