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Assertion Supported
Lamont: Oak Investment Partners agreed to wind down and dissolve
“But the existing entity, Oak Investment Partners, wasn't going to exist any longer. That entity, we all agreed, was going to die. We were going to roll off all the companies, and we were the surviving new entity, essentially, Oak HCFT, so you could call us Oak…”
Annie Lamont Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 19:37 Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
Opinion
Lamont: Being outside Silicon Valley protected Oak from tech groupthink
“I actually loved being outside of Silicon Valley because I think it over my career has made us think differently. We aren't stuck in group think and have been invested all over the country and now globally.”
Annie Lamont Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 10:46 Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
Assertion Contradicted
Lamont: There was only one public software company in 1983
“I wasn't that interested in investing in disk drive companies, and there was only one public software company at that point.”
Annie Lamont Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 9:41 Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
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