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...cofounder, Josh. Yesterday was the first time that I recognized that feeling. This isn't the thing that had been bubbling up for months. It was just like, that's weird. I got a message from him today, and I feel resentful.
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...founders with a very different experience than what they would get at other firms. When you think about all those elements, which is really serving the founder consistently by adding real value that helps them scale from where when you invest to when
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...my cofounder, Josh, and just having this recognition that we have our Friday forum where we celebrate all of our wins, and I very rarely make an appearance as a person who has an attributable win. Why do you do that cool if you don't mind me asking?
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...about alignment in venture and how to make sure that we are better aligned with both our LPs and our founders. And I think that to me is a core thing of, like, look at what a person does with their own money. And I think that's kind of the most impor
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...alignment with the founder. So if the founder owns 95% and you own 5%, problematic. Every time you sit down, you go like, I'm working for this guy. De facto. If there is more alignment in terms of ownership, then I think it works better. Harry, if th
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...where founders have this one shot at that moment in time that they need to get right. That's a bit of a misalignment. I don't know about you, but I think a lot bigger now that I don't worry about losing everything,
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...the founder when it comes to the next raise. And so, for example, I focus primarily on seeds, a's, and b's. Sometimes our growth fund decides that it does the deal, and I've I've been there pitching them too. So, like, I'm very much aligned because I
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“The two things that make VCs tear their hair out about corporate venture”
As a corporate, you need to be clear on why you exist. What is your purpose out there? Because if you do not have the purpose, the VC industry will not understand you. You need to bring it across the
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...of the company? All the 49 deals we've invested in so far, we feel about all of them that's a partner who did some deals that like, bloody hell, this is so important, so exciting. I would love to be a cofounder of this company. So There's a memo star
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...CEO, and I watch my back every day because I knew they could fire me and would. Whereas some founders just act like and sometimes by contractual terms they are, but they act unfireable, and I think it's not good. None of us should feel like we're inv
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...a in a founder's position or CEO's position and you're trying to manage investors, no matter how you do it, it's very, very hard because everyone is gonna give you different directions. So if you have three investors on your cap table, you have a see
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...be founder friendly. Not that you shouldn't be friendly, obviously, but I think the the higher purpose is like founder respect. And friendly can imply, like, cheerleading, yes, person, etcetera. To honor and respect a great founder means sharing trut
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but I do think we excelled at bringing people on the project and helping to figure out how to make it really relevant to them from monetary or from a, I'm great at coding this perspective. Yeah. Absolutely. And when you're looking at companies evalua
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...for a partnership where the founder is saying, I'm gonna have a few people around this table on this journey with me. And, what I'm saying in return is this company and your team, the founder team is going to be one of my four or five slots for this
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...because we just want the best price on the next round. Exactly. But look, there are many pros also going with a multi stage fund. Some have forty, fifty years experience of supporting companies. Some partners are incredible to have on your board, but
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...the founder also understands us and can understand what we bring to the table. Absolutely. And we've, we've gone into situations like that, where the founder ended up choosing us over some of the brand names you're bringing up. How do you feel about
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