Traditional VC
topic on 4 shows · 10 statements across 10 episodes
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10 statements about Traditional VC, every show
Chan: Family offices usually invest earlier in startups than traditional VCs
“They generally are very entrepreneurial and have a great sense for investing in things, and they probably, I would say most times, you know, come in earlier than traditional VCs.”
Shah: Traditional VCs avoid asking for capital back over reputational concerns
“I think a lot of traditional VCs are loath to do that for reputational reasons.”
Sanghvi: Traditional VC will survive as long as traditional LPs exist
“As long as traditional LPs like university foundations exist, traditional VC will continue to exist.”
Bansal: Fast-Moving Hedge Funds Force Traditional VCs to Adapt Processes
“The age of the fast moving, not even growth funds, but really hedge funds that are now competing in late stage tech is not unique to India. It's also in the US. So and I say, God bless them. They bring in a lot of capital. They bring in a lot of velocity. It i…”
Traditional VCs are skipping due diligence to win competitive deals
“Term sheet in two days. No diligence, right? Just like, maybe send us a board deck. And there used to be a small number of well-known growth stage fund who would do that, but increasingly what's happening is a lot of more sort of traditional VCs, I think, are …”
Armbrust: Traditional VC forces startups to pretend they are billion-dollar companies
“In the way that traditional VC works, as you well know, is that you know, you're kind of always pretending you're going to be a billion dollar company. You have to, the problem is not every company is meant to be a billion dollar company.”
Gomila: Traditional VC will consolidate into full-stack giants as others fail
“I think there's going to be consolidation for the traditional VC, where there's going to be some players that are the main players, and they go on full stack, they're full stack, full service, traditional VC, and all the traditional VC, other ones fall apart.”
Edgeless Could Never Have Raised $3 Million From Traditional VCs
“They would have never got that, that three million that it was at the time in February, March, March when they closed it, they would have never got that money from traditional VC.”
Borthwick: Traditional VC has failed to adapt to market shifts
“And so I think that what we have today is that the market is actually changing and I can talk about that in detail, but I think that generally the market is changing and has changed over the last five, 10 years. And I think the VC hasn't adapted to that becaus…”