career investors

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2017 by Eric Vishria · across every show →

Everything said about career investors, oldest first

Sep 25, 2017 positive
Insight
Vishria: Top VC partnerships require a mix of operators and career investors
“I think the top performing partnerships tend to have a mix of operators turned VCs and career investors, and I don't think that's an accident.”
Eric Vishria Sep 25, 2017 ▶ 6:33 20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Why Career VCs Have Advantages Most Under Appreciate, Why We Are In An Infrastructure Renaissance & What Makes The Best VC Partnership
Aug 24, 2020 negative
Opinion
Lavingia: Career VCs Are Less Valuable to Founders Than Operators
“I think career investors are just not as valuable because frankly, like that sort of on the ground experience of building distribution, building a product, That stuff is just so difficult to read about. You just have to do it to really grok it.”
Sahil Lavingia Aug 24, 2020 ▶ 30:49 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
Sep 25, 2024 negative
Insight
Vishria: Career VCs often make worse board members due to lacking operational empathy
“For, well, going back to, they haven't actually done these things at depth. They haven't done them themselves. They often lack like empathy and understanding. I think they often think that things are more deterministic than I think they actually are. And so li…”
Eric Vishria Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 7:49 Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 25, 2024 positive
Opinion
Vishria: Career investors are better at investing than former founders
“They're better investors. Also not necessarily better board members, not necessarily better advisors, not necessarily a better bunch of things, but definitely better.”
Eric Vishria Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 6:21 Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.