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Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Billy Libby, the co-founder of Upper 90, a firm that invests in a hybrid of debt and equity in early stage technology companies to help founders scale efficiently. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Billy Libby It's a random walk, and I think that's helped us with Upper 90 because we came with fresh eyes into the VC world that hasn't changed that much in 20 years.
- ▶ 14:22 Billy Libby And that's how upper nineties started was mashing together these two universes with a pure goal of sharing best ideas and bringing a community of really interesting people together. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:49 Ted Seides What was that evolution from a club of chairing a couple of deals to what became Upper 90? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Ted Seides Did that become the investment philosophy for Upper 90? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 Billy Libby Upper 90 is the top corner of a goal.
- ▶ 31:26 Billy Libby Sometimes some of the larger growth funds and VCs are upset because they want all the equity, but our view is that there's always room for upper 90 to be like the second.
- ▶ 38:30 Billy Libby And upper 90 on the other side is like, hey, you just need less equity if you're a capital intensive e-commerce or tech business.
- ▶ 39:29 unnamed speaker He was actually at Gecko, then went to a company called Jump, was a poly chain, had this unique different set of experiences and was putting them all together in a weird way like I was with Upper 90. 2 times in the scene