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Eakman: Male posturing inside VC firms undermines good decision-making
“There's often a bunch of male posturing nonsense in these venture capital firms. If you can get rid of all that noise, you end up with a way better chance of making good decisions.”
Emerging GPs Frequently Fail on Portfolio Strategy and Risk Management
“I think many GPs miss on portfolio strategy. That's probably the place that when we ask questions, GPs just flail about, especially newer or emerging GPs. And they're unaware of the risk characteristics that are different, you know, in a total portfolio versus…”
Eakman Advises Founders and VCs to Push Hard for Exits
“Absolutely. Get out if you're even close to the door.”
GPs Hypocritically Pitch LPs With Massive Decks Despite Advising Founders Otherwise
“When GPs come in, I think the mistake they make generally is putting too much in a pitch deck and not limiting and not taking their own advice. They'll tell a company to have a pitch deck with 10 slides in it, And yet they'll show up with a 45 page deck and ex…”