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How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 39:56 Rory O'Driscoll I was listening to your list of questions and this question is a big deal because, you know, Yale has been the intellectual godfather of the endowment model and David Swenson's book. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:24 Rory O'Driscoll Again, reciting my David Swenson, one, it's not shocking if you have the perspective, which you should do correctly, that the longest lived institutions, political institutions in the world are kind of corporate institutions in the world,…

Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 6, 2025 · 1 mention

David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:57 David Frankel Like if you totally, if you look at like the Swanson model was like VCP, it was more like 30%. 2 times in the scene

David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:44 Harry Stebbings I see, I hear a lot of endowment funds say, oh, we, we, we've got the Yale David Swenson model. 2 times in the scene

Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2024 · 5 mentions

Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:49 Mike Maples Um, what we do at Floodgate is seventy-thirty, and the reason, I learned this from Dave Swenson, like, your allocation decision, so, so Dave Swenson at Yale once told me, your allocation decision is one of the most important decisions that… 2 times in the scene

Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 10, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst May 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:49 David Fialkow One was David Swenson from Yale, who's unfortunately passed, and then Andy Golden, who ran the endowment at Princeton.

20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen Jul 26, 2021 · 9 mentions

20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital Dec 9, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:03 David Teten In the institutional investing world, one of the most famous investors is David Swenson, the head of the Yale Endowment, who has amazing returns over the past few decades.
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