Ryan Akkina
11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 29, 2024 by Ryan Akkina · across every show →
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Akkina: Avoid businesses needing annual balance sheet reinvestment or having high churn
“You have to be very careful with businesses where you have to reinvest the balance sheet every year. You have to continuously reinvest the customers, right? So other parallels I sometimes notice, things like gaming, where maybe you have a very high churn rate …”
Jan 29, 2024
Akkina: Venture fund evaluation requires assessing see, pick, win, and service
“It's see, pick, win, right? We need people who can see the best deals or at least a very large volume of deals, right? Hopefully the best deals are inside that set. Then we want them to be able to pick the best ones to try and invest in. And then finally they …”
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Jan 29, 2024
Akkina: Family offices should require investment staff to co-invest personal capital
“I, you know, if I think, if I had a blank sheet of paper, if I were running a family office, let's say, I would probably do something where, one, people would be required to invest a lot of their own money in the investments the firm was making. You know, eith…”
Jan 29, 2024 positive
Akkina: MITIMCo deliberately minimizes time demands on portfolio fund managers
“And of course, something we try to do as LPs is not be overly demanding in, The time we take from people, right? You know, we're always very conscientious of the fact that we want most of these people to be spending most of their time out on the field, right? …”
Jan 29, 2024 negative
Akkina: VC managers should not force LP evaluations too early
“It's good to build relationships, but you don't necessarily want to force people to evaluate you too early. Because I think particularly with larger institutions, it can be the case that, you know, once they evaluate you once, they may not be willing to look a…”
Jan 29, 2024 bullish
Akkina: Green Oaks is one of MITIMCo's top fund relationships over 10 years
“And I remember actually, you know, my boss, Seth, and I decided, you know, let's, let's leave this and look at fund two or something. And the next, but I slept on it, and then the next day I decided to call my boss, Seth, back and say, you know, I think we sho…”