Beezer Clarkson
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 20, 2020 by Beezer Clarkson · across every show →
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Jan 20, 2020
Jan 20, 2020 positive
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Clarkson: Facebook and Instagram should be off-limits for LP due diligence
“I don't know if Facebook and Instagram are fair places to do diligence on people since it becomes so personal. I feel like that should be a bit of a safe space. Some people use it very mindfully, and that's great, but I say a lot of people are just sharing pic…”
Jan 20, 2020 neutral
Jan 20, 2020
Clarkson: Sapphire underwrites Series A funds to 3x net, seed to 5x
“The only thing that we go in looking at it from an underwriting perspective is we look to underwrite series A exposure to a three X net, which means we want the funds to be able to produce that, and then we can get into portfolio construction and see the bar i…”
Jan 20, 2020
Jan 20, 2020 negative
Clarkson: Claiming a fund has no competitors rarely resonates with LPs
“Same thing with the competitor landscape. So coming in and saying there are no competitors, there might be very corner cases where that's still true, but it's tricky, and so that just as guidance to GPs, that doesn't usually resonate super well.”
Jan 20, 2020 negative
Jan 20, 2020
Clarkson: Sapphire commits $100M-$125M annually to VC funds via $10M-$15M checks
“One of the things that we do is that we're consistent every year with the amount of capital we commit, and it's about a hundred and twenty-five million. We like to write checks that are, call it loosely, 10 to fifteen million, so you can guesstimate our pacing…”
Jan 20, 2020 positive
Clarkson: Series A venture investors are demanding to see startup revenue metrics
“Listening to the number of managers, like GPs now talk about revenue, and that happening, and the folks at Series A looking to see more revenue metrics, it actually feels, I know it's a bit of a, like, return to an old new thing, but it's a bit of a new new th…”