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Correlation Ventures study: Only 4% of startup investments return 10X+
“If you look at the work done by the folks over at correlation ventures, they published some research a couple of years ago, which looked at over 21,000 financings and their eventual exits over a decade. What they saw was four percent of investments yielded mor…”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 11:55 20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
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Sequoia, a16z, and Founders Fund enforce strict partner investment discipline
“You look at the likes of Andreessen Horowitz or Sequoia, our founder's fund, for example. They're pretty disciplined in terms of the absolute number of investments they make per person.”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 47:54 20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
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Carta was not the first cap table management company
“And example, I'll use the Henry where he didn't start the first cap table company and nor was he actually building a cap table company from day one. And there, there'd been a dozen or so companies over the last two decades that had been started to go after thi…”
Sumit Gajri Jan 17, 2020 ▶ 16:32 20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
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