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“At the end of the day, we sort of felt like a lot of VC firms were built to teach engineers how to become CEOs, but there weren't a lot of VC firms that were built to teach CEOs how to manage their product.”

“Nobody's certainly done it at the scale that we're doing it at, so a big change in the industry over the last 10 years has been that there are more firms that are adding to their post-investment teams, which for a long time was really never part of the makeup …”

“I really like the venture capital firms that are raising 253 hundred and fifty million.”

“If a founder walked into most venture firms, I think they would probably fire half the team from an operating standpoint, because it is not the thing that is traditionally driven returns is building great services and delivering great quality of service to fou…”

“Essentially there was like one or two firms Three years ago that we're doing this at scale.”

“If you're undifferentiated You're not gonna get the best deals, and you're gonna die a slow death.”

“If you aren't able to actually go compete with the New York Timeses, the Sequoias, you can't raise that much capital, you can't hire that caliber of partner, whatever it is, it's really hard to downsize and pick a lane when you kind of look around and you're l…”

“And then maybe this is somewhat self-serving, but we are hearing this a lot, particularly from young founders that diversity on the cap table really matters. And so I think firms that offer that lens either by having available individuals who can serve as boar…”

“Just meeting with the top people doesn't really necessarily tell you what's going on underneath at the firm, and so we really encourage broad participation by our team with those people who, you know, associates should know associates, and the VPs should know …”

“I think the firms that are at risk or those are sort of in no man's land that are still continue to want to do diligence and feel their value add, but yet They're not investing at the early stage and they're competing against massive pools of capital with a ve…”

“If I'm giving you a 50 to a hundred page report and I'm passing on you with a 50 to a hundred page report. No one does that.”

“Typical firms across early and mid would have up to, let's say a really, really good firm. It's 30% loss ratio, but on average, even as it's publicly available data, you can have up to 60% loss ratio, but you can be a top five percent firm.”

“For one thing, as you grow your firm, you just start to silo your people. So instead of being more of a generalist or covering multiple sectors, you start to cover very specific end markets, and within those end markets, even more specific subsectors. And give…”

“Venture capital firms have a lot more money than they had back then. And the nature of the businesses that have been founded over the past 10 to 15 years, those are very asset-like businesses, and so they're not expensive to keep going. The biggest expense, ho…”

“I think in the venture landscape, it's very rare that you run into any venture capital firm these days that doesn't have some sort of focus on climate, and I think that's usually a pretty strong indicator.”

“As a result of the flurry of both IPOs as well as SPACs in 21 and 22, there was a significant uplift in terms of number of TRAs created that were shared by both growth equity firms as well as venture capital firms”

“I would say that a real opportunity is just the explosion of venture firms realizing, okay, I have a fundraising calendar in 23 and 24. I need to do something about it, and that probably is the biggest opportunity, I would say, that's really emerged.”

“60% of venture capital firms generate less than cost. So not only are you not keeping up with equities, you're losing money in more than half of venture capital funds raised.”

“I'm sure there will be times in the future where we have venture booms again, but the odds of systematically finding firms that are Consistently producing 20% plus returns and the occasional 80% returning fund. It's going to be very, very hard for that to happ…”

“You look at the data of executive hires placed by a venture firm. Either an investor said, like, oh, you got to hire this guy. He's going to come in and totally change your go-to-market. This guy's going to blow revenue out of the water. Or it's through a tale…”