Sacca stepped away from VC because he feared becoming a 'B-teamer'
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Venture capitalist Chris Sacca explains the personal motivations behind his initial decision to step away from investing at the peak of Lowercase Capital's success.
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“That's one of the reasons I quit for a while. Was I worried that, you know, the stage of life I was in, I wasn't going to be able to fucking bring it. I wasn't going to be able to as obsessive as you need to be to succeed in this business and this industry and to be as helpful as I wanted to be. And so that was one of the reasons I stepped back at probably the height of, you know, our power or influence when I could have raised as much money as possible and seen all the fucking deals. I stopped because I worried I was going to be a B teamer.”
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