Garg: There are no good venture investments, only missed size or omissions
Avichal Garg · Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34) · Aug 4, 2022 · at 57:52
Avichal Garg, co-founder of Electric Capital, shares a core venture capital mental model during a lightning round discussion with Evanston Capital's Manish Gandhi.
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“There are no good investments in venture. It's either investments where you said no, you should have said yes, or it's investments where you said yes, but you should have put in a lot more money. There's just no good venture investments.”
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