lead investor
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 2, 2019 by Anne Martin · across every show →
Everything said about lead investor, oldest first
Dec 2, 2019 negative
Martin: Repeated non-lead deals reveal a venture firm's fading access
“Interpreting if a manager is in your conference room and you're saying, tell me about these five deals and, you know, to ask, were you the lead? Were you the lead? Were you the lead? No, no, no. And you start to realize, okay, this manager has fallen from a pl…”
Jun 2, 2025 positive
deVeer: Lead private credit lenders hold a free call option on companies
“The point is you have this free call option as a lender to own companies if you have to. And if you're lending to good companies and you control your outcomes, where you're a lead investor, you can probably get to better resolutions.”