venture investing

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2020 by Anna Khan · across every show →

Everything said about venture investing, oldest first

Aug 14, 2020
Insight
Anna Khan: Sourcing Founders Early Remains the Core of VC Success
“The first is never forget that sourcing is still the heart of venture investing. Getting to a founder and Earlier than anyone else is how you succeed, and a lot of partners forget that because once you reach that level, you sort of think sourcing is below you,…”
Anna Khan Aug 14, 2020 ▶ 12:03 20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
Feb 4, 2021
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Fishner-Wolfson: The final valuation double drives the vast majority of venture returns
“And I think one of the other pieces that I really think is important is that it's the last double on the investment that matters, right? The first double, it's good, but really when you look at the absolute returns on investing, specifically in venture investi…”
Justin Fishner-Wolfson Feb 4, 2021 ▶ 6:10 20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
Aug 26, 2021
Insight
Frank Rotman: Venture capital has far smaller decision sample sizes than poker
“The biggest difference though, between poker and venture investing is that you get very few decisions that you end up making in the venture world and is very small and in poker and is very large.”
Frank Rotman Aug 26, 2021 ▶ 5:13 20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
May 30, 2026 bullish
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Laqua: Biology will yield category-defining venture outcomes despite past failures
“And I think that there's certain areas where venture investing hasn't worked before, where where there could be like category defining outcomes and where there could be you know, new kind of industries where, where smart people are actually interested in going…”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 55:57 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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