Gradient Ventures

“I think it's actually the hardest part of the job, because ultimately, as we touched on before, this is a services industry, and when founders come and pitch us, they're sharing their life vision, life dream. They've probably spent countless hours Ridiculous s…”

“I found that the best founders that are going after some of these categories, or maybe there have been companies that haven't worked up, have actually made an effort to connect with either people on those teams, or try and understand the story intimately well,…”

“If they can't explain those two things relatively quickly, if that's not clear in a slide or in an email, then I would say it can be usually be a quick no, but a very polite no.”

“We get together as a group twice a week. We meet companies on those days. We also do our partner discussions those days. And so we have a pretty nimble and velocity oriented process.”