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...in later funding rounds, but he'll come in and give the ability to do that and then share economics, obviously. So this concept has been done not in one structure, typically, but you will have somebody like Marc Andreessen or Sequoias, Partners, or o
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...raising a funding round for our hypothetical company. We'll break it down by different stages in the fundraising process. And at those stages, I will talk a little bit about how each element differs according to the round you're raising. Now first of
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your first fund? You know, what were the different figures you were thinking, and what did you, come to finally that, okay. This is the number. The I knew that no matter what we did, we needed to have at least $1,010,000,000 dollars to deploy for fun
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make it as production, deliver to us, and then we can start selling it and we'll we'll commit with the dealer agreement. It's a blue collar industry, a lot of handshakes and a lot of in person kicking tires and feeling the product. That's why we're r
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And the logical one was someone from The US, Jim Getz at that time, and Neil Shen. Yeah. That's makes an incredible story. Thank you for sharing all this. At the same time that you're expanding geographically, you're also expanding the suite of funds
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...taken part in, fundings for Harvey, Together AI, Mercury, the bank, Island, the secure browser, SuperBase, Ender Labs, Clara, Persona, lots of twists on other companies.
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So they've gone up modestly. They've doubled they probably doubled in size in ten years. But that's because the series a check size has doubled in size. And the series a feels more like a series b in the industry. And the $200,000,000 seed fund, our
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on the first transaction, but we can get this recurring motion going as well. And you're doing that today? We're one of the primary reasons we're fundraising is so we can meet the insurance minimums in order to get into medication. Got it. Okay. Can
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And so, you know, you get to a world where SpaceX becomes a platform dominant supplier for outer space, And I think that's pretty impressive. What do you think was the fund of the year? I'm gonna go with 20 VC. Dude, dollars 400,000,000 fundraise, fi
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Like, so that was our And we got to about 8,000,000 on on the basis of that. And then we had a lot more to go. We had to get to at least 25 for the first fund to make it viable. Okay. So thirty nine months. We have eight from that. How did the rest c
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this just blows it out of the water. And it's worth thinking through too. Like seed funds will be, you know, 30 to 100,000,000. You'll have your sort of early stage funds that can typically or traditionally go up to $2,300,000,000. You've got these t
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paying the hand to mouth tax, right, when you never have enough money to do anything. You're always making relatively short term decisions that that feel cheap in the moment and wind up being expensive down the line. I think the best way to think abo
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those very best companies, those very competitive rounds. And, yeah, and, of course, it it also makes you think that that type of fund, you cannot just deploy it at CNCUA's a. You have to become more multistage. You have to think about, you know, wha
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a $50,000,000 fund that's deployed over two years every two years is the same as a $100,000,000 fund that's deployed every four. What we've done is we've just picked a model, which is which says sort of what's the right stage, what's the right owners
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Now, the continuously offered fund, I believe, means that it's gonna last for as long as it wants to. There's no set end date to it, Jason. And this is a a fund that has been registered under the SEC form n two. Now it's different than in VCs, and I
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There's a lot of evidence that's just not gonna happen, that there's gonna be a long window of time before we ever see that again. The multistage funds will, over time, feel pressure to rationalize their fund sizes. They'll they'll do it slowly and t
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...round of funding that is at a higher valuation. And I think we say over a 110 in, total investment. So if somebody puts a 10 k check-in and doubles evaluation, maybe we discount that. So it might be 25, 50, or a 100. I think we set as like a minimum
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...we're looking for would be, I would say, 95% focused on distribution sales, not product development. We would hire go to market teams, people to get deals with payers, and etcetera. I was gonna let the air out of the room, but I dig this, but I'm I'm
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