late-stage investing

also referred to as: late stage investing

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2017 by Rahul Mehta · across every show →

Everything said about late-stage investing, oldest first

Jul 24, 2017
Insight
Poor deal selection damages a venture firm's future access to elite founders
“You would not be able to pick the best company unless you have access to it, so you need to have access first, and if you've made a lot of type one, type two errors in picking, then you wouldn't have The same access to high quality founders in the future eithe…”
Rahul Mehta Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 16:05 20VC: Investing $200m In Facebook, The 3 Stages of Founder Development & Why Creating A New User Behaviour Can Be Unit Economics Inefficient with Rahul Mehta, Managing Partner @ DST
Oct 19, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Cyan Banister says late-stage venture investing makes her deeply unhappy
“I also discovered that I'm not cut out for late stage investing. It makes me deeply unhappy.”
Cyan Banister Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 5:43 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
May 18, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Browder: Late-stage billion-dollar investments can be better than Series A
“Sometimes the best place to be could actually be investing a billion or things like that. Where it's de-risked. You can model the cash flows.”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 1:16:46 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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