Jeff Morris Jr.: Market timing in venture capital is a fool's game
Jeff Morris Jr. · 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One · Nov 19, 2018 · at 16:30
Jeff Morris Jr. addresses market timing risks when investing in frontier technologies like AR and VR.
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“Anyone who claims to know how to time markets, I think is crazy or just a little bit too self-confident. So I don't try to time markets. I do try and just back the best possible entrepreneurs in a given space.”
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