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Walk: Homebrew now prioritizes lead investor quality for seed participation
“We used to not care who the other investors were. We're like, we're going to help you and we'll get other people great around us. Now we actually care about quality, you know, of the lead investor.”
Walk: Several Homebrew portfolio companies delayed IPOs despite being ready
“You know, we have a few that I think could have been public, you know, already, but have decided, you know, for various reasons to hold off, and I think when they become public, they'll be even stronger companies.”
Walk: Homebrew uses external 360-degree feedback interviews with founders every two years
“We do three, six used to do every other year, like an externally led, 360 degree feedback real process with our founders and some of our co-investors. Not, you know, like a survey, you know, or an NPS score, but like, Talking 30 minutes to each of our founders…”
Walk: Homebrew co-founders had millions saved before starting the fund
“I think, like, not that this is, you know, sort of unspoken, because I think we've both talked about this, but, like, we also started this later in our careers, right? Like, we were both in our, you know, mid-late thirties, and I think it's, like, we both We w…”
Walk: Managed by Q raised a strategic bridge round before Series A
“That's how we got involved in a company like Managed by Q, which is doing wonderfully. They were already at a revenue run rate and a growth rate that probably could have gotten them in a round, but they hadn't yet thought about what expansion at the time out o…”