Hiten Shah: Venture capital investing beyond seed is a numbers game
Hiten Shah · 20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader · Aug 9, 2019 · at 21:52
Angel investor and entrepreneur Hiten Shah shares insights on operational scale and investment dynamics in venture capital on The 20 VC.
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“I feel like investing is something that you have to be pretty dedicated to in order to do an amazing job at it beyond like pre-seed or seed rounds. The reason for that is it is a numbers game. You are basically writing enough checks so that some of them work out, and you essentially expect some form of a failure rate, some amount of a failure rate, and it tends to be pretty high, and you make the best decision you can.”
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