FirstMark Capital, every mention

Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350) Nov 13, 2023 · 15 mentions

• ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Rick Heitzman, the founder and managing partner of Firstmark Capital, a network driven seed and series A venture capital firm managing three and a half billion dollars that backs entrepreneurs to high growth… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 17:38 Ted Seides How did you get from there to what became FirstMark? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 21:41 Rick Heitzman We had our annual meeting last week, and one of our LPs shared with me a diligence call they had on first mark when we were starting, and it came up in notes in one of their things, and this is from, call it, 1517 years ago.
• ▶ 34:27 Rick Heitzman But in addition to that, you know, the infrastructure of FirstMark will also help you be bionic by being able to accelerate your business through credibility you might not have as a young, small company.
• ▶ 37:07 Rick Heitzman And then not only add value to first mark companies, but a lot of the companies are non first mark companies in the ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:43 Rick Heitzman I'm going to raise my hand, and we hopefully were good members of the community or good stewards of the community, and we don't overly buy us to first mark companies. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:37 Rick Heitzman When we first started doing software investing, when we founded FirstMarkets, and what kind of software companies do we like?
• ▶ 1:03:25 Ted Seides I'm really curious to ask you about brand, the importance of FirstMark and your personal brand as it relates to the investment strategy and how you've thought about that across different media as 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:01 Rick Heitzman So even as we sit in our boardroom as a partners or as our first Mark team, we've met this company.