Footwork
also referred to as: footwork ventures
10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2021 by Mike Smith · said 32 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Beezer Clarkson (15), Ted Seides (7), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (7), Mike Smith (3)
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2021 32 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Footwork, oldest first
Sep 23, 2021
Sep 23, 2021 neutral
Sep 23, 2021 positive
Sep 23, 2021 bullish
Trivedi: Via reached millions in ARR within a year on minimal capital
“And with Via, the product had launched just over a year ago. The business is already at hundreds of customers, millions in annual recurring revenue. It's barely spent any capital and it's in a space of SMS based marketing and customer support in this mobile co…”
Sep 23, 2021 positive
Sep 23, 2021
Trivedi: Footwork closed debut venture fund at $175M in April 2021
“That culminated in our decision last fall to go build Footwork together, to start to speak to limited partners, and then in January of 2021, Mike left Stitch Fix, and in April we closed our first fund with one hundred and seventy five million in commitments an…”
Sep 23, 2021 neutral
Smith: VC firms operate like golf teams rather than true team sports
“On a good day, I think venture firms on their best day Our golf teams, like individuals shooting their best score, their lowest score, and adding them up at the end. We really think about our team and our approach more like a basketball team or a soccer team, …”
Sep 23, 2021 positive
Clarkson: A manager's deal logic matters more than dollars invested
“It's always a question, not just what you've done as far as dollars invested, but why someone likes a deal. It really speaks to us about what makes this manager different, how they think of a deal, how they think of the space. It's in those kinds of questions …”
Sep 23, 2021 positive
Basu Trivedi: Footwork raised Fund I in a single close
“Our approach ended up being a bit different where we said, this is the fund that we want to raise. And ideally we'd want to do it and be one and done on, on a close so that we can figure out what all the different puzzle pieces of LP construction look like and…”
Sep 23, 2021
Basu Trivedi: Small VC firms must operate as thesis-driven specialists
“When you're a small firm, you can't do everything in today's ecosystem. And so you have to decide where you want to spend time. And so the principle behind being a thesis driven specialist is finding swim lanes where we go deep in certain areas where we look a…”