Do you want to be the first investor or the last?

He he once asked me, and I had never thought about it at the time.

2:52 / 3:33

On today's special segment, we have Ethan Austin of Outside VC. What's the best question a founder or an LP has asked you? I think one of our LPs,

he was also a VC. He he once asked me, and I had never thought about it at the time. He he said, do you wanna be do you like to be the first investor or the last investor? And and I hadn't I hadn't really thought about it much at that point. And we do both. Kind of end up sometimes as the last investor and, and things are a bit more derisked. But I tend to love being that first investor and, and, and, you know, really being that first believer and feeling like you have the ability to affect the trajectory

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Ethan Austin of Outside VC shares a thought-provoking question from an LP that changed his perspective on investment timing. He explores the difference between being an early believer versus investing when deals are more de-risked, revealing his preference for being the first investor who can shape a company's trajectory.

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The clip captures a pivotal moment of self-reflection that reveals core investment philosophy through a simple but profound question.

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