Wagner: My biggest cleantech contribution at Accel was avoiding bad deals
Peter Wagner · Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 6, 2024 · at 54:55
Peter Wagner, founding partner of Wing Venture Capital and former Accel managing partner, discusses his experience exploring cleantech investments during the mid-2000s boom.
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“Like, I devoted a substantial amount of my time to cleantech at one point you know, just because, and this was in like, 2006, 2007, 2008. And it was because, you know, no one else at the firm was spending any time on it, you know, I sort of felt like it was an exposure point and I was like, okay, look, I'll do some, I'll do this at least with a fraction of my time for a while, and ended up, you know, I think that, you know, my biggest contribution was keeping us out of those deals.”
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