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Barnes: VCs Losing Deals to Mega Funds Have a Product Problem
“And so when I hear people say that, I think you have a product problem. And if you can't convince a founder that partnering with you is what's best for their business in the face of your competition, You need to do something different.”
Barnes: TheGP Earns Equity for Operator Services Instead of Fee Funding
“And we can do that because our business model means that, that, that work is a revenue center for the firm rather than a cost center, because we are in equity for doing that work.”
Barnes: Capital Efficiency Matters Far More Than Theoretical TAM for Early VCs
“I think for early stage investors, It matters much less that there's a billion dollar opportunity in a market. There's a TAM that, you know, you can back your way into that suggests that there's, you know, tens of billions to be captured and you can rationaliz…”
Barnes: Founder Value Creation Is a Multiplication Problem, Not Addition
“And I think in that case, the quality of that founder, the value they will create is a multiplication problem, not an addition problem. And so if you have a zero anywhere in a multiplication problem, the value is zero.”
Barnes: TheGP Will Intentionally Limit Fund and Portfolio Scaling
“Our goal is not to scale. Our goal is to maximize quality of service delivery and impact on a smaller number of super high quality companies.”
Barnes: My Biggest Founder Evaluation Mistake Was Ignoring Key Weaknesses
“And I think that my mistakes with founders have been missing the consequences of a weakness and see, and being overwhelmed with the strength of a spike. They won't even be able to apply that spike because They lack something else that will mitigate that, that …”