The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 3 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Disclosure
Vrionis: HBCUs and foundations lack specialized staff to evaluate VC managers
“Some of the LPs that we went to, some of the historically black colleges or foundations, they don't employ highly paid chief investment officers, so therefore they don't have a staff that's very sophisticated when it comes to knowing which managers to get into…”
John Vrionis Dec 9, 2019 ▶ 10:35 20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
Disclosure
Vrionis: Most of Unusual Ventures' capital comes from non-profit institutions
“Most of our money comes from nonprofits.”
John Vrionis Dec 9, 2019 ▶ 8:32 20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
Disclosure
Vrionis: Unusual Ventures models its fund strategy and structure after Benchmark
“We model ourselves very much after Benchmark, partly through Andy's influence.”
John Vrionis Dec 9, 2019 ▶ 17:34 20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.