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Samani: Investment teams larger than 10 people are net value-destructive
“I believe that the core unit of an investment firm is the investment team. And I am of the view that if investment team is larger than 10, you are now net value destructive to the overall investment team process and culture.”
Samani: Value accrual to both tokens and equity creates conflicting incentives
“In almost all cases, there should not be value accrual to tokens and equity. There are a couple of exceptions to that. But as a general rule, that is true. For teams that try and pitch you value accrual to both, it is almost certain that those two things are i…”
Samani: Tokens only make sense for coordinating permissionless public behavior
“Tokens only make sense if you need to incentivize behavior in a permissionless fashion among the public at large. To have them all coordinate on, on some sort of broader shared objective.”
Samani: Sector-based portfolio targets in venture capital are value-destructive
“I think it's extremely value destructive to do so because you can't know ahead of time what you, like, we could not forecast helium. It would not, if we had any constraints on what is in strike zone or not, then helium would have been out of strike zone.”
Samani: Capital formation innovations, not leverage, drive crypto bull markets
“That's not what creates the bull markets. What's created the bull markets is, yeah, I think actually I should say the last two bull markets has been novel formations, novel breakthroughs in capital formation.”
Samani: Crypto proved global demand for speculation far exceeds VC expectations
“And I would actually argue probably on an absolute dollars basis, crypto has shown that the demand for speculation globally is much larger than people previously thought. And the manifestations and forms in which people want it are broader and more varied than…”
Samani: Token incentives bootstrap physical networks by aligning risk and upside
“This is, I think like the textbook example of using token incentives to bootstrapping network. Where you actually are both able to assign risk and reward and couple those things in, in a real meaningful way. And in which the participants of the network, in thi…”
Samani: Finding truth in investment decisions requires active, intense disagreement
“The process of actually recognizing the truth fundamentally requires active disagreements. Because the human brain is subject to everyone has their own biases and whatever heuristics they're using. And they're, as they write a memo are, some of which are inher…”
Samani: Early-stage investors lack rigor evaluating returns to scale
“I think most folks at the earliest stages of investments are not nearly rigorous enough in discussing where the returns to scale come from.”
Samani: Almost all product network effects are sublinear
“Almost all network effects are sublinear.”