Plural

13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2025 by Taavet Hinrikus · said 15 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Apr 28, 2025
Disclosure
Plural lead partners write personal checks for every fund deal
“And additionally, every deal we do, the lead partner of the deal writes a personal check.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 18:13 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 positive
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Hinrikus: Plural charges half the traditional VC management fee
“At Plural, we charge about half the management fee, and we think we are much better aligned.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 13:06 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 positive
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Hinrikus: Plural partners do not all need to meet founders before investing
“No, absolutely not. And I think there is probably no company where all the partners met the founders before the deal. It's typically one or few partners that meets, meets a company.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 28:41 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
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Hinrikus: Plural lead partners frequently pull deals after peer feedback
“We have many cases where after hearing the feedback, the lead partner is like, hey guys, you know, Ian, you raised great points. Karina, what you said about your experience in the market is very true, and I'm not gonna do the deal. Many cases where this happen…”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 29:24 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plural does not vote on deal decisions in investment committee
“And given that we don't vote on deals, the committee discussions are very honest, very brutal.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 27:16 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Prediction Held up
Plural caps each partner at two to three investments per year
“Every investor can only do a limited number of deals per year. You know, it looks at two to three deals per year is the right pacing.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 25:57 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Assertion Supported
Hinrikus: Half of Plural's backed founders are repeat entrepreneurs
“Approximately half of the founders we back are repeat entrepreneurs.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 9:27 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Plural covers its own legal fees instead of charging portfolio startups
“Well, we pay our own legal fees. Vast majority of venture deals, as in the term sheets, that you pay your investors legal fees.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 19:56 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hinrikus: Plural will not write follow-on checks without GDP-level impact
“We kind of promise we're not going to give up before you, but it doesn't mean we're going to write bad money after good money. We've told our founders, we're here to have GDP level impact. If your company's not doing it, I'm sorry, We should not continue fundi…”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 25:01 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hinrikus expects Plural Fund II reserves to be under half the fund
“Fund two. We kind of drew the line roughly in the middle. I think probably we end up with slightly less than half for reserves.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 23:03 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Disclosure
Plural partners are collectively the largest investor in their fund
“We are the biggest investor in the fund ourselves.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 18:10 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Hinrikus: Plural Was Created to Drive European Sovereignty and GDP-Level Impact
“Even zooming out when we were starting to think about plural in 20, 21. So we raised our first one in 20, 22. So thinking of creating plural, we were, we had two things which were really important. European sovereignty and GDP level impact.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 42:42 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Hinrikus: Plural doesn't believe funds can control sector composition
“You know, in plural, We really don't think we have much control over fund composition.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 21:23 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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