Harlem Capital runs investment committees in reverse order of seniority
Henri Pierre-Jacques · Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 24, 2022 · at 32:24
Henri Pierre-Jacques, Managing Partner at Harlem Capital, explains how the firm structures investment committee deliberation to prevent general partner bias from influencing junior team members.
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“One thing we do now is the junior person always goes first after we have investment committee. So we go associate to principal to partner to GP, right? And so for everything, for opinions, the general partners always go last. Because if the GPs talk first, even though your opinion and your vote matters more, like we don't want that to impact the vote and the opinions of the juniors or the junior partners, right?”
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