What Do Great Founders Have in Common? Less Than Everyone Wants to Believe.
My own colleagues ask me this all the time. So I went through my whole portfolio, more than 75 companies over a dozen-plus years, and looked as hard as I could.
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Your Hit Rate Is Fixed. Your Number of Shots Isn’t.
The world holds more randomness than we admit. Default Yes to showing up.
Did VCs Overcomplicate a Three-Step Job?
Strategy matters, but it can become a substitute for the unglamorous work of finding the next great company.
This Month I’ve Been a VC Exactly as Long as I Was an Operator
The feedback used to hit immediately and I carried it home every night. As a VC I can be wrong for a decade before I find out.
The Hardest Call in Venture Isn’t What to Back. It’s Whether to Sell.
We’re trained to source, evaluate, and back, but not how to make a one-way valuation call on a private company with the window closing.
What Does “Ambition” Mean in VC?
In hedge funds, your performance is marked daily. In venture? It’s much murkier.