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...founders in person. And I think it's so important to meet your lead investor in person before signing the term sheet. So much can be gained and learned from those in person meetings. Then there is the question of, how do I really get to know someone,
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...of Founders Fund said on the show recently about how he was unable to do his job in COVID as he could not meet founders in person. And I think it's so important to meet your lead investor in person before signing the term sheet. So much can be gained
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...community. Brilliant. So, with that, so we talked about founders and finding them and deal flow and all that comes into managing a fund effectively. Given the limited time and even imperfect information that you and a lot of VCs face, How do you stru
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...you give to the founder to set up that, you know, that relationship for the best? I think it's kinda crazy that people sometimes invest in CEOs that they've never met in person. Right? Like, I personally like meeting with my CEOs, going to a bar, gra
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...into relationships with experts in other parts of our lives. I mean, we give other people an opportunity to be a value add by reaching out to them and asking them questions about their area of expertise and what they're seeing in their industry. And
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...I think most founders treat each fundraise like a dot rather than a trend line. A lot of the people that we raise money from are people that I've known for three, four, five plus years. And I think this also maybe ties into the serial founder dynamic
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founders, it might make sense to work with more of a boutique y specialist or something who have, like, a different expectation on outcome. So what would your advice be to founders who are trying to, like, digest what those two sort of profiles of in
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and being venture staff for about the last fifteen years before starting these funds in 2017. Okay. So you both founded your firms around the same time, but I'm sure your pals were very different. Can we talk about what it was like to raise your very
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...And it's a relationships business, and you have to build the relationship over time. Most of the people we talked to said no, just like anybody else. When you're raising you're selling something, you're raising a fund, Most people we talked to said n
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...to go out to dinner or whatever, but I haven't heard as much founders inviting investors to go to dinner. So if the investor wants to be passive or you don't know enough about them as as an investor,
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...that I have relationships with that I've tagged based on stage and category that they invest in and check size and a bunch of other notes that I have for them. And I send that curated list over to the founder and say, which of these do you want intro
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...for founders to stay aware that the most expensive way to finance your initiative is to give away equity. So there are other alternatives we have, like the grants, competitions, as I mentioned. There's other vehicles that you can use. There's debts f
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