Venture capital has evolved into hyper-personalized offerings for founders
Logan Bartlett · Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 30, 2022 · at 18:36
Logan Bartlett, Managing Director at Redpoint, analyzes how competitive dynamics among venture capital firms have shifted to meet specific founder needs.
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“It's, I think the venture capital world that we live in today is is more akin, we went from a generation, and I, I've made this analogy, that we were in the generation of Broadcast television, right? Where there were only a handful of channels and what you were, the TV you were making was what was most broadly appealing to as many people as possible. And so you made happy days and I love Lucy and all that stuff, right? Then we moved to the cable news era where there was some level of personalization, right? There might've been ESPN or Fox news or CNBC or MSNBC or whatever MTV, there was some level of personalization, but it wasn't super personalized to each individual. And now in this era of streaming wars or TikTok or whatever you want to call it, everything's hyper-personalized to every individual entrepreneur.”
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