university endowments

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 10, 2017 by Andy Rachleff · across every show →

Everything said about university endowments, oldest first

Mar 10, 2017 bullish
Insight
Rachleff: Software can replicate 80% of endowment strategies for retail investors
“With software, we could do an eighty-twenty on what the endowments do and deliver their capabilities to the masses”
Andy Rachleff Mar 10, 2017 ▶ 4:08 20VC: Wealthfront and Benchmark's Andy Rachleff on Why Delight Is The Greatest Form Of Virality, Why Competition Does Not Matter & What The Future Holds For Automated Personal Finance
Sep 6, 2023 negative
Insight
Basu Trivedi: Relying solely on endowment LPs creates denominator effect risk
“There's still some level of risk of having an entire endowment based LP base, because they may all sort of have the same denominator effect issues at the same time.”
Nikhil Basu Trivedi Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 39:35 Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 13, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Villig: European VC Lags US Due to Lack of Pension and Endowment LPs
“So one of the problems is that if you look at where's the money coming from into the US VC industry, there's so many more LPs, the big pension funds are putting money in, the university endowments are putting money in, and that's not really the case in Europe.…”
Markus Villig Nov 13, 2024 ▶ 1:02:21 Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 24, 2025 bearish
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: VC partners will refrain from spinning out in 2025-2026
“You might see in the next one to two years, a little bit of clinging to the lifeboats here, guys, because, you know, it's not going to be as easy as it was. I think 23, 24 was a unique time where it's never easy to raise a new fund. These are really talented p…”
Rory O'Driscoll Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 35:40 How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 10, 2025 bearish
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: University endowments will reduce venture capital investments
“If you're asking the impact on venture investing as a venture, as a source of capital, that's an easy question to answer. They're obviously going to be a lot less active.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 48:05 Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 9, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2026
O'Driscoll: University endowment VC stake sell-offs will tail off
“So I think for those guys, it's not going to be the new normal in the sense of you're not going to be doing this because it's not going to persist for a long time because by definition, if you're selling a lot of venture assets, you're probably not going to bu…”
Rory O'Driscoll Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 38:06 OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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