Joe Alalu

Co-Founder & General Partner, Daring Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joe Alalu is the co-founder and General Partner at Daring Ventures, a pre-seed venture capital firm focusing on vertical software and AI. He previously worked in M&A investment banking at Lazard after graduating from Columbia University.

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Alalu: AI will drive banks to do more deals, not cut bankers

“So we see it as banks doing more deals with the same number of bankers than banks doing the same number of deals with fewer bankers.”

Joe Alalu Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 5:25 Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation

Insight

Alalu: People who never faced true rejection make poor founders

“There's a lot of people out there who have never really heard no before in their life. And maybe, you know, Harvard said no, but Yale said yes. Facebook said no, but Microsoft said yes. You know, Goldman Sachs said no, but Morgan Stanley said yes. They, you kn…”

Joe Alalu Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 14:31 Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation

Insight

Alalu: Founder-friendly is LP-friendly unless GPs put themselves first

“We think that being founder friendly is being LP friendly and being LP friendly is being founder friendly. The only way that that, you know, equilibrium ever gets messed up is when GPs put themselves first.”

Joe Alalu Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 20:20 Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation

Disclosure

Alalu: Daring Ventures rejects pre-seed startups lacking clear cash-flow paths

“Our number one you know, KPI that we really, really have to look at is, is there a path to free cash at the end of this raise? If not, How, what, how big is that delta? Because the one thing that we will absolutely not invest in is scratching now business mode…”

Joe Alalu Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 22:26 Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation

Insight

Alalu: Human friction is a feature, not a bug, in some work

“While we see that there is a lot of opportunity to automate some types of knowledge related work, there's other places where human friction It's more of a feature than it is a bug.”

Joe Alalu Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 1:46 Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation	Jul 28, 2025	19m

Joe Alalu

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