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“VC missed 5-10x returns by not forcing entrepreneurs to take exit”
I wasn't able to influence the entrepreneurs to take an off ramp, and they wanted to go all the way. I supported them, but I told them the valuation we are getting. We're in a bubble. These multiples
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personal lesson4:19 – 4:53
and with the engineering. I completely was green and didn't understand that the founders weren't suited for this. The market wasn't suited for this. And so you learn your lessons as you go along. When you don't believe in a founder anymore, do you te
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...know, post exit, we look at our early memos and we laugh about about it. In the case of, UiPath, I mean, we thought it could return the fund. I mean, it has returned 12 and a half times the fund already. So,
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...the exit profits are made like in an eighteen month to two year window. Horsey Bridge are brilliant in terms of their analysis on exit markets. And they found that really ventures are very challenging asset class. But Yeah. Brilliant when you take ad
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...the exit profits are made like in an eighteen month to two year window. Horsey Bridge are brilliant in terms of their analysis on exit markets. And they found that really ventures are very challenging asset class. But Yeah. Brilliant when you take ad
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from transcript57:39 – 58:50
And actually, you can actually say, hey, we need to be tighter. We need to be more focused. And you can really direct the acquisition of product market fit by having those lessons. I tend to agree with you. I think there are founders, you can't alway
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“Investor admits he'd make the same costly mistake again”
I think three years before that, we could have made another five to 10 x and made history. It would have been the best private acquisition in 2021 in the history of venture capital. But I support the
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personal lesson4:39 – 5:18
We are looking at adding new managers in the market today because we think that signal to noise ratio looks a lot better because we're now starting to see a lot of those companies that raise money in the at the height of the the Zerb era begin to com
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“Can founders take $100K+ off the table at Series A without revenue?”
Crafting a story such that I get whatever I want whenever I want. And so, like, could founders take money off the table on a really good series a even without any revenue but just having identified pr
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tactical advice34:28 – 34:45
I wouldn't take that. Or, like, when you find a winner, just put cash in it. Well, you know, the sort of back up the truck on on on your winners thing is it that's a strategy that works I think for an asset gatherer. There's sort of two business mode
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So when it comes time for a new round, time comes to the pro rata, the odds that you're gonna get it are lower. All of a sudden, that founder has to start to scramble and figure out, what do I do? Or a new person comes under the board who maybe is le
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earlier and earlier. So at last count, about 20 to 25% of companies that have been around for four years have lost a cofounder over that time. And some of them died because the cofounder left, so they're not even included in that four year mark becau
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...exit timing, not in terms of, of anything. And that's a real challenge for the CEO. So, one of the things I really focus on with our with our companies is you really need to be in a position where, first of all, you pick a a lead investor, and that's
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what I believe is my way of building this business. And if everybody else does something else, awesome. I'm not judging them. I hope they're successful. I'm gonna do it our way. I need to be successful to our stakeholders, and to myself, and our team
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