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Bain Capital Ventures

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9 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2019 by Sarah Smith · said 33 times in 8 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (21), Sarah Smith (4), Justin Caldbeck (3), Nigel Morris (2), Matt Harris (1), Kevin Ryan (1), Julio Vasconcellos (1)

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Apr 29, 2019
Insight
Smith: VC firms must protect new female partners from the diversity tax
“I'd also recommend you not give her the diversity tax. So it's really common. I think good intentions. People say, great. We have our first people partner. Will you now mentor all the women in our firm? If you think about that, you know, that's really putting …”
Sarah Smith Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 34:16 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
Apr 29, 2019
Insight
Smith: VC firms must maintain identical deal standards for new female partners
“After mentorship, I'd recommend that you maintain your investment criteria. I think this is really hard sometimes when you bring in a newer member, certainly from an underrepresented group, there could be temptation to let the first few deals through or, you k…”
Sarah Smith Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 33:42 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
Apr 29, 2019 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Smith: Bain expects Lime to generate a 15x to 20x return
“My bet was really believing that Lime is the ability to get us positive economics and more than 15 to 20 X from here.”
Sarah Smith Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 20:04 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
Sep 23, 2019
Opinion
Harris: VC Diversity Requires 50/50 Junior Hiring Plus Senior Lateral Hires
“At the lower ranks of our firms, we need to bring in the correct balance, correct being fifty-fifty at a minimum of men and women, and minorities should be added to this question as well, and we also need to lateral in senior investing talent at the same time.…”
Matt Harris Sep 23, 2019 ▶ 27:27 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
Sep 23, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Bain Capital Ventures pauses deals receiving unanimous partner votes
“We have a rule internally that if everybody votes for a deal, we need to pause and rethink it.”
Matt Harris Sep 23, 2019 ▶ 21:36 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
Sep 23, 2019 negative
Disclosure
Harris: Bain Capital Ventures no longer co-leads Series A rounds
“Where we end up having to somewhat frustratingly draw a hard line is we generally don't co-lead Series A's anymore.”
Matt Harris Sep 23, 2019 ▶ 17:55 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
Sep 23, 2019 positive
Insight
Harris: Entry valuation matters little if Series A ownership hits 18%-25%
“If you own 20%, 25%, 18%, something meaningful of a company that ends up being important, then it doesn't really matter whether your entry price was 20 posts or 40 posts.”
Matt Harris Sep 23, 2019 ▶ 13:30 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
Sep 23, 2019
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Matt Harris: Bain Capital Ventures targets $300M–$400M annual deployment
“Our goal has been to invest three or four hundred million dollars a year. Again, we do both venture and growth equity, so that seems like a lot of money, but many of those are large checks and later stage companies. Fully half of it is your classic five to twe…”
Matt Harris Sep 23, 2019 ▶ 12:24 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
Sep 23, 2019
Disclosure
Matt Harris: Fear of macro cycles has cost me a lot of money
“My deep and abiding fear and recognition of the cyclicality of finance and the cyclicality of technology has actually cost me a lot of money.”
Matt Harris Sep 23, 2019 ▶ 9:15 20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever
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