Alan Jean-Baptiste
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2022 by Alan Jean-Baptiste · across every show →
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Sep 1, 2022 positive
Jean-Baptiste: Ansa uses GP-led thesis work to invest faster with deeper conviction
“And that's why our approach is to do GP-led thesis work in very specific spaces, and to build deep theses. So we're not running around chasing every idea, but we're chasing the theses where we feel like we have deep conviction and knowledge. And that allows us…”
Sep 1, 2022 negative
Jean-Baptiste: Separation of sourcers and investment committees weakens venture conviction
“When you think about the structuring of traditional firms, It tends to be that the most junior people are doing a lot of the sourcing, developing a lot of the theses, having those initial conversations and building a point of view. But the investment committee…”
Sep 1, 2022 negative
Jean-Baptiste: Firm scaling creates silos that miss interdisciplinary business models
“For one thing, as you grow your firm, you just start to silo your people. So instead of being more of a generalist or covering multiple sectors, you start to cover very specific end markets, and within those end markets, even more specific subsectors. And give…”
Sep 1, 2022
Jean-Baptiste: Ansa Capital Targets About a Dozen Companies for Fund One
“We're building a concentrated portfolio. We want fund one to be about a dozen companies because for all that time and for all that effort and research and thesis building, we want to invest deeply behind where we have conviction.”