Zeev Ventures

“Until in the first eight years from that I've been operating, I was really, I was investing my own money, period.”

“For example, I have no physical offices. I have no I have no assistants. I have no associates. I have no partners.”

“There was no scenario that I would build a firm because, I mean, we'll probably talk about later, but I think I have all the advantages in the world without any of the disadvantages.”

“If I'm honest, it's more serendipity. I wish I was more proactive, but it's more serendipity. Again, I'm leveraging the fact that I've been doing venture for 25 years, so I leverage the fact that I Don't maybe need to create my own opportunities because I see …”

“It tends to lead you really to groupthink because at the end of the day, most of the VCs are basically very similar. So Obviously, these areas become overfunded, they become overly competitive, and yes, there will be some big winners out of this category of th…”

“Since 2015, I've already done six funds, so you're right, it's even faster than annual”

“I do cross-fund as a rule, not as an exception.”

“All my funds have between five and 10 investments.”

“From my standpoint, I've always made my decisions extremely fast. Almost all my investments were done within 24 to 40 hours.”

“It's much more likely to happen when it's kind of like a space that nobody thinks much about, and the company has an opportunity to Develop quietly for a year or two or three and build real moats and real advantages. And once everyone understands that it's an …”

“I had a, an LP who joined in the third fund, and four months later, I tell him that you know, I'm raising our fine for, I finished, I'm raising, and he totally freaked out, and he started lecturing me on, he didn't call it what you called it, he called it vint…”

“Because in 2000, in 2021, I raised three funds total, total about a billion, and then now I'm raising another five hundred million.”

“Valuations were cut by 50% in the public markets on average, but most of the businesses are still going very strong. You know, most of my companies, we don't see necessarily any weakening of demand.”

“The conclusion from these two instances, especially from the second one was that I never want to have partners again. Okay. So that was my takeaway that I don't want to have partners that I, you know, I want to own my own mistakes and own, I don't want to suff…”

“And I don't keep reserves, so I, you know, invested, you know, invested at all.”

“So even if I continue to invest at the same pace from a new investment standpoint, that's only about 20% of the cash that I invest. 80% goes into later stages of companies that I got in early”

“So I'm now in fund 11, and I only have 40 companies.”