Spectrum 28
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2016 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
- 20VC: More $ Raised This Year Than The Past 15, War Chests Being Built & Decline In First Time Funds: So What The Heck Is Happening In Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
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Wong predicts mass self-driving car proliferation by 2023
“I think seven years. Well, first I like odd numbers. No kidding aside. I think that it is not, it's not a two, three year away problem, but I don't think it's a decade, a long problem, but by mass, I think it could be mass proliferation out of the caveat, like…”
Spectrum 28 delayed public fund launch until one year after investing
“That's why we announced our press launch of the fund one year after we started investing, because we didn't believe that raising a fund saying, hey world, we got a lot of money, we're about to do X, Y, Z, is this is not our style. We want it to be that We got …”
Lyon Wong: Spectrum 28 activates one new investment vertical per quarter
“We invest in, we open up and activate a new vertical per quarter.”
Wong: Late-stage VC returns can match early-stage IRR via faster exits
“So there's no definitive optimal stage because if you're on that efficiency curve and you're investing in the late stage, it's as good as investing in the early stage. Even if your multiple isn't as high as So not in the hundred X, but you're really faster to …”
Lyon Wong: Spectrum 28 raised $170M after initially targeting $125M
“So our target raise was closer to one 25. And I think we continually increased it because of thinking for the long term, there were LPs that we wanted to include in this fund to start building a relationship in order to raise a larger fund later. But really, f…”