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Software market expansion to $10B outcomes justifies higher early-stage entry valuations
“Software markets are much larger than anyone thought. The billion dollar companies are now ten billion dollar companies. And so what that means is the entry valuations can actually be much higher than before.”
Avlok Kohli Dec 21, 2020 ▶ 19:48 20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
Disclosure
Traditional venture funds give late-entering LPs an unfair information advantage
“I'm actually an LP in many traditional funds where they've made a bunch of investments. And they're still raising. Portfolio's been marked up, and I'm like, hey, what's going on? Like, the new LPs actually have an information advantage, and they're able to inv…”
Avlok Kohli Dec 21, 2020 ▶ 24:09 20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
What-if
Venture funds would naturally be rolling funds in a software-first era
“Is rolling funds are what a venture fund would have just looked like in an age of software.”
Avlok Kohli Dec 21, 2020 ▶ 26:05 20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
Insight
Employees accept executive decisions they oppose if they feel heard
“What people really want to feel is that they've been heard, that their opinion and perspectives were considered, and that with all of that, the right decision is made. It doesn't need to be. The right decision is a decision they agree with. It's just their opi…”
Avlok Kohli Dec 21, 2020 ▶ 11:06 20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
Assertion Supported
AngelList Venture facilitated funding for 5,000 startups and manages $2.2B AUM
“They have facilitated the funding of over 5000 startups, including 47 unicorns, and they're the home to 4300 funds and syndicates, with over 2.2 Billion dollars in assets under management.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 21, 2020 ▶ 0:14 20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
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