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Miles Dieffenbach

10 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 4, 2025 by Miles Dieffenbach · across every show →

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Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Carnegie Mellon Rarely Invests in VC Spinout Funds
“Yeah, we historically have not done many, if any, spinouts.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 28:40 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
A VC Manager Marked OpenSea at $13B in 2023
“The bad one, I mean, this one forever stands out, was we underwrote a manager in in twenty-twenty-three that was holding OpenSea at thirteen billion, which, like, I, that one was like.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:29:56 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Large Venture Funds Charge 2-and-20 Fees for Passive Investing
“You are essentially acting as a long only public equity investor, right? You're not, you know, actively, you know, managing the company. They've got their own HR team. They're doing all their own hiring. You know, they've got a 20 person product team. They've …”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 48:20 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Carnegie Mellon Targets 25-Year, Three-Fund Commitments With New VCs
“And when we back a new manager, we want to back them for at least three funds. So call it, you know, 25 years of an illiquid relationship.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 29:55 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Half of VC Firms Falsely Claim They Will Never Raise Over $400M
“I would say Miles, this is the perfect fund size for us. We want to be a union square. We want to be a benchmark. 300 to four hundred million, this is the perfect size. We're never going to raise a bigger fund. I hear that. I kid you not. At least every other …”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:23:24 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Opinion
Mega-Scale Venture Funds Are the Highest-Margin Businesses Ever Created
“These business models, these GPs are creating are some of the best high margin businesses Ever created, right?”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 47:18 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Opinion
Venture Capital Fee Structures Must Change for Large Funds
“You know, we really try to understand has the magic bond been broken between GPs and LPs, which, you know, leads us to, you know, like we think the fee structures need to change to accommodate for that.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 47:51 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Insight
GP Commitment Is a Top Forward Indicator of VC Performance
“Frankly, like we have two quantitative data points outside of fund size and pass returns that are the best forward looking indicator for future returns of our funds. And one of them is is GP commitment.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:24:19 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Insight
Early-Stage Venture Funds Require 15 to 18 Years to Liquidate Fully
“If you're in an early-stage venture fund, it's gonna take at least 15 years for that fund to be wrapped up, probably 18. Right. To be fully done. All positions liquidated.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 29:42 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Recent VC Partnership Turnover Exceeds Previous Eight Years Combined
“The amount of change you've seen at partnerships over the past two years is the most I've seen combined in my, you know, eight year histories in LP.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 27:35 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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