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...rounds are there's a discovery round, which my opinion is less than 2,000,000. So it's usually, like, maybe a first time founder exploring a new market, maybe like WASM, web assembly markup language or whatnot. The idea is they're a big market, but t
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essentially the earliest round of a startup or the second earliest. Friends and family would technically be the earliest. But the first institutional money is often called pre seed or seed. Pre seed, we came up with because the seed round started to
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...growth rounds. So listeners who are not professional venture capitalists listening to this, it kinda sounds like, okay. Cool. Yeah. Like, they'd have a different strategy. They don't focus on a stage. They just focus on lots of stages. And for anyone
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...are there's a discovery round, which my opinion is less than 2,000,000. So it's usually, like, maybe a first time founder exploring a new market, maybe like WASM, web assembly markup language or whatnot. The idea is they're a big market, but the mark
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...rounds. They're gonna build great companies, and there are a lot of companies in that category that are not gonna be great. That's the inevitability
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valuation, we got to thinking, what's the biggest c round of all time? And it turns out, drum roll, please, it's this one. Okay. It's the biggest one ever. Other big ones, Safe Superintelligence last year, billion plus, Yuga Labs back in 2022, the Bo
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...rounds. When I see people spin out of any And that is who. Not that person who's spinning out of a company with a great reputation.
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...rounds. And so then you have this new term called pre seed investing.
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Seed, we've done number of seed. Palo Alto Networks was a seed. DoorDash was a seed, and many others. Series a Wiz Island, and so on. Series b Sierra kind enough. Gilly gave me the call and so many others. Growth just quickly. You know, Zoom, Snowfla
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...of rounds, there was not a seed asset class. There were no seed firms. And so the series a was your first professional venture capital institution coming in and writing a check into your company, taking a board seat. The first time you have real gove
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...the seed rounds that are 5,000,000 plus are a fifth of the Do you do those jumbo seeds, the inception? We did one. We did one and and you have to sometimes I saw it. It seems like a 10,000,000 round, no? So it was a it was a $30,000,000 round where w
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...seed rounds that are like $4 or $5,000,000 To me, the purpose of a seed round is you have an insight about the future and you have a massive risk that you're hoping to take out. The ideal seed round is one which provides slightly more than the minimu
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allowing themselves to have visibility on a seed market before doubling down on anything that shows any meaningful signs of traction, where they then wanna put in a $20,000,000 series a and lead that next round. Sadly, that's a reality of venture tod
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