Hunter Walk
Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Hunter Walk co-founded Homebrew with Satya Patel, backing breakout startups including Chime, Plaid, Gusto, and Cruise before shifting the firm into a self-funded evergreen vehicle. Prior to venture capital, he led consumer product management at YouTube after working on Google AdSense and Linden Lab's Second Life.
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4appearances
54statements
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41said about them ↓ Everything Hunter Walk said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Walk: VCs refusing founder liquidity risk exploiting entrepreneurs while collecting fees
“Like the very least you're missing opportunities to de-stress founders in a way that will increase the probability of a wonderful outcome. And at the worst, you know, you're exploiting, you know, founders who have all their eggs in one basket, you know, while …”
Hunter Walk: There is no Series A crunch in tech
“I tend to be on the side that there is no Series A crunch in the sense that I have yet to find a company that I thought should be able to raise a Series A fail to do so.”
Walk: Underperforming VC funds take a decade or more to exit
“It takes, you know, a decade or more, you know, barring a real firm, you know, a partnership breakup or you know, something illegal, you know, right? Like it takes a decade or more for a underperforming fund To actually exit the market.”
Hunter Walk: Only 5% of VCs are exceptional and 5% are horrible
“And then you get inside the industry and you realize like, actually it's a single hump. There's five percent of VCs who are really, really good at what they do. And even part of that is self-awareness, right? Oh, I'm best in these situations and this stage of …”
Walk: Overcapitalized startups face silent disappearance, low-value acquihires, or noisy collapse
“And so I think for most of those companies, layoffs are going to turn into silent disappearance low value acquihires or noisy collapses.”
Rushing into equal co-founder partnerships after brief dating is horrible
“The worst are the people who, like, think that you have to, and they do, like, two weeks of founder dating, and, you know, then become equal partners. It's horrible.”
Walk: Raising larger venture funds without structural planning hurts LPs and founders
“Like all of those are implications that I think actually when venture firms don't consider and they just raise more money and then figure it out as they go, like are bad for LPs and bad for founders and thus bad for those firms.”
Hunter Walk: Homebrew's 2013 fund ranks in the top one percent
“Like, even if that fund didn't return another dollar, we'd be like a top one percent fund, and fortunately, it's gonna return more dollars.”
Hunter Walk: Midas List inclusion forces confidential disclosures and deal attribution
“Anyone who's on the Midas list no matter what their firm says, they've turned over, you know, information to a third party about their portfolio. And they've decided internally that somebody gets to claim credit for that deal. Whether it's the person who deser…”
Walk: Differentiated new venture managers will eat mediocre firms' lunch
“I think it's a great time to be a differentiated quote unquote new manager, right? They are going to eat the lunch of mediocre firms, you know, slow moving firms.”
Walk: Giving different pitches to founders and LPs is duplicitous
“To the extent that those answers, the answers you would tell a founder are different than what you tell an LP. I think at best it's confusing and at worst it's duplicitous, right? Like you're sort of somebody's the rube, right?”
Hunter Walk: Do not use AUM growth to measure fund success
“Don't use AUM or increasing AUM as a measuring size for your success, for your momentum, for anything.”
Walk: Consensus decision-making is foolish for venture funds with 3+ partners
“If there were three or more of us, consensus would be You know, a foolish goal wouldn't serve us or the founders well.”
Walk: Homebrew never missed an outlier investment due to consensus rules
“We look back And we've struggled over 10 years to find an occasion where lack of, you know, if there was lack of consensus, it meant we didn't do the deal. And I don't think we have any, you know, quote unquote outliers that were, you know, false negatives bec…”
Walk: De-risked seed investing does not exist
“I don't think there's such a thing as like, De-risked seed. Like you should be betting on companies that in a success scenario can be wildly, wildly successful and worth a, you know, incredible amount of capital and want, you know, to own a percentage of those…”
Walk: Raising a $200M-$300M fund would have sacrificed team happiness
“Raising 203 hundred million dollars, you know, like some of our peers and going to market in a model where we brought on another GP, we expanded our team, we brought on another platform person. Like, I actually think we could, you know, Hit exceed our benchmar…”
Walk: Venture fund size dictates investment strategy
“People attribute this to Mike Maple's affiliate and it's a hundred percent true. Like your fund size is your strategy, right?”
Hunter Walk: All Homebrew startups hitting milestones raised Series A
“And what I'll say, at least through first fund and, you know, starting to get halfway through our second fund, is when we and our founders agree on those milestones and they hit those milestones, none of them have had problems raising an A round.”
Founders with specific domain expertise offer value when cold-emailing investors
“When you have very specific knowledge and expertise, you're not just asking, you are already exchanging. Even if they don't need your help right now, they're adding you as somebody that they might be able to reach to in the future”
Hunter Walk: Founder team dynamics are harder to read over Zoom
“The challenge I think sometimes, especially when you're talking to, you know, teams that are two or three founders, is I really care about the dynamics between those founders, and sometimes it's harder to read those across three different Zoom windows than it …”
Homebrew backs single founders who reserve equity for future founding teams
“Well, of course many of the companies we invest in have, you know, founder teams of two or three people already together. We've also made investments where it's a single founder who is then going to build what they call a founding team around them, and is sett…”
Stacking convertible notes often causes unanticipated and severe equity dilution
“It can often feel like free money until it converts, and then you're trying to figure out all these notes with different caps, and different discount rates, and different interest accrued. Yeah. And all of a sudden you realize you sold off more of your company…”
Cold emails showing pre-funding progress go a long way with investors
“I have a big belief that a good cold email, proof of being the type of entrepreneur who has developed something and even without funding, you know, has started to build a business goes a long way in the mind of an investor.”
Walk: Homebrew gives carried interest to every employee at the firm
“We've always given anybody who works for homebrew carry in the fund. So our head of ops, you know, executive assistant, our head of talent in addition to getting salaries and bonuses, they are, they get unbounded upside. In our success.”
The other half of the tape: Hunter Walk's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 39 times in 23 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 16Joe Fernandez 4Ethan Kurzweil 4Josh Muccio 3Molly O'Shea 2John Fein 2Sean Brecker 1Mac the VC 1
Statements about Hunter Walk, by other people (2)
Patel: Homebrew operates without deal attribution and makes decisions by consensus
“And, you know, we, we've never had any of those kinds of issues because we don't do deal attribution. Every decision is made by consensus and we both work with every company in, in some, you know, type of way.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
20VC 33
Sourcery 3
the Pitch 3
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- 20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- 20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- 20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- 20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- 20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- 20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- 20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Hunter's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew | 2 | 27 | 50% 1/2 | full record on 20VC → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew | 1 | 20 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Sourcery → |
| THE PITCHLEDGER | Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew | 1 | 7 | — | full record on the Pitch → |