Leon Wong
6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2016 by Leon Wong · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Oct 26, 2016 negative
Wong: Starting early in venture beats pivoting from an operating career
“I think the best investors stem from actually being investors. So the earlier in venture that you start investing, the better you're going to be over the long term. So I don't think doing a career, a lifetime career in another field and then switching over as …”
Oct 26, 2016 neutral
Wong: Post-seed and post-Series A face greatest venture capital shortages
“The demand is totally met by the supply of capital where you see capital gaps are in phases after that, where you have the larger seed seeds that require larger amounts of capital because they're tackling something harder. So in the healthcare space, or you're…”
Oct 26, 2016 neutral
Wong: Late-stage VC returns can match early-stage IRR via faster exits
“So there's no definitive optimal stage because if you're on that efficiency curve and you're investing in the late stage, it's as good as investing in the early stage. Even if your multiple isn't as high as So not in the hundred X, but you're really faster to …”
Oct 26, 2016 positive
Lyon Wong: Real-time operator networks will outperform individual VC operating experience
“So I think having an operational network is key, but not necessarily you have to be the one to have experienced All aspects of operating and you to be imparting the wisdom yourself. I don't think that's the, that in 10 years from now, I don't think that that w…”
Oct 26, 2016
Lyon Wong: Spectrum 28 raised $170M after initially targeting $125M
“So our target raise was closer to one 25. And I think we continually increased it because of thinking for the long term, there were LPs that we wanted to include in this fund to start building a relationship in order to raise a larger fund later. But really, f…”
Oct 26, 2016
Spectrum 28 delayed public fund launch until one year after investing
“That's why we announced our press launch of the fund one year after we started investing, because we didn't believe that raising a fund saying, hey world, we got a lot of money, we're about to do X, Y, Z, is this is not our style. We want it to be that We got …”