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venture capital
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venture capital
...Venture capital is a fascinating investment area whose many days in the sun shine brightest this year. Institutional portfolios with large venture allocations soared to their best year in history. And yet parts of Venture are unique in being both eff
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...my capital allocation grows and I invest that money. So sometimes and we we've done it on a couple of occasions now, mainly with a company called Envisix, which is an augmented
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...Intuit Ventures, I would say, is a fifty fifty split. You know, we invest for financial return, but there has to be strategic overlap, and relevance to our customers or our product base for us to invest. A lot of CVC programs will require a BU sponso
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...my capital allocation. So to do one deal taking up 50%, you know, with I think my team would have loved it because they could have had, like, ten months off. But, you know, from my perspective, I didn't wanna put, you know, that much money into one.
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...I think venture capital has made the mistake of following private equity in terms of LP allocation, categorization. And in private equity, regional investment strategy ultimately is exposed to the regional macro dynamics. Whereas in venture capital,
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...every other venture capitalist is that we create the supply of investments. We don't compete with any other investor at the point where we're investing in the companies. You know, our biggest competitors are the status quo. It's going into academia.
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side of running a venture capital firm. You know, just because someone was a great operator doesn't mean they're gonna be a great investor. Like, you see a lot of that that story of so and so built this company and now they're a VC or so and so's ric
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...venture capital wouldn't want me to use is that we're sort of merchant bankers. We run around. We invest some of our own capital, and then our job is to tell the rest of the market that they should invest at a higher price. And so that is the number
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...were raising capital from people who could write real checks, and they started converting from being a lending an investor in our lending business to an investor in the venture business. And so it kinda, you know, was a combination of referrals, meet
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...a venture capital firm that, like, is super narrow and specific around what check sizes they write for, what type of ownership, to me, never really made sense. So I wanted to build a firm that is more welcoming and inviting and flexible,
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BD, and investing. So it's kind of cool to have that all of those different skill sets rolled into one job, and it's kinda not. Like, some some weeks, I'm spending, like, 40 to 60% of my time more on the BD and the strategic side, and I don't get to
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...venture investors out there with a very much lower cost of capital than us. So somebody will come and underwrite the same opportunity to a lower outcome. In those cases, our offer ends up being not high enough. So we've lost on price. Sometimes we've
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