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Motschwiller: Series A rounds for top consumer decacorns occurred pre-2012
“You look at the series A Funding times of the consumer decacorns that are out there, the Ubers, the Lyfts, the Airbnbs, the Snaps, the Pinterest, the Spotifys, those series A's were all done pre-二零 12.”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 26:28 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
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Max Motschwiller: Meritech Fund VI targeting $600M and 25 portfolio companies
“So we're in the process of raising our sixth fund, it'll be about six hundred million, and our view is to have roughly 25 portfolio companies in that fund, so not hugely concentrated, but we think the right balance is”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 24:49 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
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Max Motschwiller: Meritech reserves only 20-25% of funds for follow-on rounds
“Explicitly, we keep 20 to 25% of our fund captive for reserves, and that is definitely smaller than the average early stage venture firm, and because of what I mentioned before, we're just coming in at later stages such that there are fewer subsequent rounds a…”
Max Motschwiller Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 25:25 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
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