Montgomery: Venture is not zero-sum; great companies need $100M-$200M across syndicates
Jamie Montgomery · Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26) · Dec 30, 2021 · at 25:40
Jamie Montgomery, Managing Partner at March Capital, explains why venture firms collaborate in syndicates rather than competing in zero-sum dynamics.
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“It's not a zero-sum game in the venture business. Usually, you know, there's four, five, six investors in a company, and it takes a 102 hundred million dollars to grow a great company, and we're one of those investors.”
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