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“VC reveals the brutal math behind startup investing failure rates”
investing in a startup, which doesn't make returns and goes away, I don't feel like sorry because I'm in the high risk business. I'm like in a high risk business. I know that there will be 10 companie
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“If you knew which startups would win, why invest in losers?”
that I've run into because there's a certain win rate you're gonna have on any individual investment. And I I do believe it's just hard to know in advance. You do your best, but it's hard to know what
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...investing in founders sometimes before they even know what it is they're founding. Every once in a while, I'll see a kid pitching in a Little League baseball game or acting on a school stage or turning in a blockbuster science fair exhibit and think,
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Anytime, but as early as possible. So one of the things you won't be surprised by this, we're pretty obsessed with our entire portfolio, so we have an ongoing sort of entire portfolio going on in the background. Two years in, when we reviewed it, the
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...starts investing. And you tell them, hey. Hey. Listen to your team. You don't ask them what's your biggest pain point or what's your biggest need because, again, you'll get so many
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I think what we try to do is just be very focused and really, you know, which lanes we wanna play in. An example of that is we didn't invest in many of the sort of horizontal foundational models, but we chose to make an investment in, you know, in a
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often it's before we've even made the investment. We're accessing the the stakeholders within major corporates to help us sharpen our our diligence effectively. So to give you an example, we invested in a company that's doing computer vision software
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oh, you have a growing business that's killing it, but you spent the weekend in your warehouse rearranging it to make it more efficient. And somehow you gotten 10 other people to do it with you for just beer and pizza. Sometimes for me, it's like the
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...where startups are almost following the VCs the entire time and trying to fit into their thesis. And we kind of forget to do the same due diligence already. And that is part of the trap I would say that some founders fall into, unfortunately. And the
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Even before we we have written the first line of code, we don't have a product, but we ask you how would you evaluate that product, how would you run a POV for that product. Essentially, we ask all the tough questions in the first few months for the
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...angel investing. And I think probably four days later, I was out in the Bay Area, and he was introducing me to people, you know. Like, I just want to do that. I was working at McAfee, but I also you know, it's just it's more of a corporate job at tha
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And then the next round, we said we're gonna exercise our pro rata. And then we were told, you can't. And I was like, yes, we can. Like, you know and then they realized the mistake and then they changed it. So, like, we did our pro rata in the the se
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...investing in the idea. Right? And we we basically challenged that status quo, but I think it is becoming more normal now. Now it's never been easier for a young person to raise some sort of capital, you know, raise 20 or 50 k or a 100 k in a in angel
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...investing is an efficient market, it's not going to be a good business. And so you got to find inefficiencies for it to be a good business. And then people say, well, what if what if I can't find inefficiencies? I'm like, okay, then you shouldn't be
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I think the main advice would be just to make sure that you know what that investor can bring to the table other than money. There is definitely many ways to get funding that are not receiving, direct investments. And just for founders to stay aware
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that you could kinda hone in on on a pitch that kinda clicks with you and makes you want to invest in them, is there something that you could share that would do that? For me, it's whether they know something that nobody else seems to know. Like, do
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that can help companies, you know, be more successful. I think, ultimately, when you ask founders and companies, you know, what what do you want from your investor, I think you can give so many different answers, but it bubbles down to that people wa
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there is this, like, like, there's this line of companies that should not be funded, right, with venture money because they won't be successful for whatever the reasons might be. Like, wrong time, wrong timing, wrong team, wrong product, whatever it
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...believe in the startup early on and support them, like, they won't they won't be successful. And I think that's, frankly, like, a lot of investors like you, Olivia, where, like, you're backing first time founders. They're they come from, like, you kn
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