Playfair Capital
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 12, 2015 by Fede Pirzio-Biroli · said 17 times in 3 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (8), Fede Pirzio-Biroli (7), Sitar Teli (1), James Wise (1)
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2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 16 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
Everything said about Playfair Capital, oldest first
Aug 12, 2015 neutral
Aug 12, 2015
Playfair Capital provides portfolio startups with a free in-house technical recruiter
“We've taken on a head of talent who was formerly at Facebook and Google before that, who's a technical recruiter. And we are deploying them amongst portfolio companies to hire CTOs, front-end, back-end, full-stack devs entirely engineering-focused at our cost …”
Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 neutral
Playfair Capital is structured with founder Fede Pirzio-Biroli as sole LP
“So when, so today, Playfair Capital is a limited liability partnership. So it is a venture capital firm in every sense of the word, legally speaking as well. But it's a venture capital firm which doesn't have the usual motivations and incentives of venture cap…”
Aug 12, 2015 positive
Playfair Capital allocates 80% carry to Pirzio-Biroli and 20% to team
“And I think, you know, if we look, if kind of, if I changed my thinking from that of an angel to thinking about things more within the fund structure under the current arrangement, just like a standard fund, which has, you know, 80% of the carry going to LPs a…”