Midas List

“I was chatting with you know, with Iliad, Quantumlight, and he, about it the other day, and they said the number one factor that they noticed was a good predictor of future returns was whether a partner was on the Midas list, a partner, an early stage investor…”

“I look at the Midas list, and none of the people on that did the deals that they said they did.”

“My view on the Midas list is, it's a really good list for who was a great investor 10 years ago, and so that, that's kind of how I would describe it, because if you look at a lot of these companies, there were deals that were made, you know, 10 years ago and s…”

“If you look at the post call, 2015 time frame, the people that make it onto the Midas list, which while an imperfect list is maybe the closest that we have to an objective ranking function of VCs the, you know, sort of the only ones that have made it down to t…”

“If you look at, you know, people that land on the, like the top 10 of the Midas list, you know, every year you'll find that about a decade later, like half of that top 10, nobody thinks about it anymore. Like there are people that have just like totally, you k…”

“And if you look at, you know, sort of top hundred on the Midas list, for VCs, they started their careers sort of pre-thousand-twelve called versus post-thousand-twelve. Pre-thousand-twelve, there was definitely a large number of investors that were pure sort o…”

“I think pipeline is a lazy crutch. I think the reality is it's only a pipeline problem if you believe the best VCs have to be technical, which if you look at the Midas list is not the case at all.”

“And after I went and looked around, I found that many of the best investors out there, you know, if you look at the Midas list, which is one list that's put together that has a lot of extremely talented and successful investors on it, they by no means fit that…”