early stage investing

“I actually feel like I'm a better investor in the early stages of products by being in the craft as well”

“The incentives are when you're investing, especially if you're doing early stage investing, just like me, you're not looking for things that are likely to succeed, right? You're looking for things that have a plausible chance of succeeding, even if it's not a …”

“So we have notably stayed focused on early stage investing, whereas most people have moved to multi-stage.”

“Short on a multi-stage fund. I think early in growth investing is more different than it appears. And so I think there are firms that like, you know, tried the early stage investing route with like a blanket based approach. And like, I don't know if that's goi…”

“If I've learned, I don't know, one thing over the last 12 years or 13 years investing is that the only way that I personally have ever made money, and I think this is probably true for most of early stage investing, is to invest in something that no one cares …”

“For me, this is my quiet motivator to do early stage investing. At least I can avoid, you know, fifteen million of taxes per deal.”

“If in six months, all this stuff can be vibed by anybody, right? Like then how the hell can we tell those early stage investors? We can still judge founders. Don't get me wrong. Right. But when a 19 year old founder walks into 20 VC and the product is really, …”