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Paley: Top Company Never Matched Its Founding Year's Hottest Theme
“Never, not the last 20 years, has the most valuable company born in any single year, right, valuable as of now, been this in the theme that was hot in that year. It has not happened.”
Paley's study of 71 IPOs shows capital raised doesn't drive startup success
“We looked at 71 IPOs over the last five years, the 71 tech IPOs over the last five years. To study whether venture capital in the outlier cases could be argued to have really driven greater success. And it turned out there was effectively no correlation betwee…”
Founder Collective Will Never Lead Follow-On Rounds in Fund II
“In our second fund, we will never lead a follow-on.”
Founder Collective never participates in follow-on rounds or pro-rata
“Founder Collective only does first checks. They never do any pro rata afterwards, period.”