Hamed: Venture returns from unexpected pivots or unpredicted reasons are low quality
Ali Hamed · Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233) · Jan 31, 2022 · at 52:26
Ali Hamed, founder of CoVenture and Crossbeam Venture Partners, explains how his firm evaluates return quality and investment discipline for institutional investors.
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“We have certain companies in our portfolio that have done tremendously well for reasons that we didn't predict. Those are not high quality returns.”
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