Contrary Capital
fund on 5 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 45 times in 6 episodes since 2022
Sourcery 25 
20VC 15 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 3 
the Neon Show 1 
TBPN 1
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Identifying top talent early gives venture investors an unfair advantage
“If you can identify the smartest people as early as possible and then support them relentlessly throughout their career, you have this sort of unfair advantage when those people eventually do start companies.”
Five of Ramp's first 50 employees came from the Contrary network
“I think five of the first 50 employees at ramp came from contrary, a lot of the people at retool, a lot of the people and roll.”
Contrary Research intentionally avoids functioning as promotional content marketing
“And we have very deliberately set up contrary research to be like antithetical to content marketing. Like we actively don't want this to be like pumping our own book, which is why we don't exclusively write about our portfolio companies. And even when we do wr…”