Dan Feder

1 appearance on the record.

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Opinion
Feder: LPs overemphasize DPI in current venture capital discussions
“I think there's maybe an over Emphasis on DPI, and that is probably, you know, if this ever makes it on the air, it's, I'm probably gonna get all sorts of angry phone calls and emails and letters, but I just think that that's not the whole story, but it seems …”
Dan Feder Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 9:52 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Feder: Trying to be a fund picker is ineffective for endowments
“It's really not playing to our strengths to go out and meet everybody who's got a fund and try to be a picker. Being a picker is really, really hard.”
Dan Feder Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 15:14 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Feder: Outlier venture returns often hide in poor market categories
“And the outliers can be in really poor ponds. And if you're just fishing in that one pond that you think it's the most robust, it's really, you can actually have zero outliers.”
Dan Feder Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 20:58 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Feder: UMich endowment exclusively invests through its own network
“There's nothing in our portfolio that's gotten there without it coming through our own networks.”
Dan Feder Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 14:07 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Feder: Industrial, defense, and materials tech are the sensible hardware bets
“Yeah, you know, industrial applications, or military applications, or material sciences, those seems like, those seem like the places where you can actually build a company more sensibly.”
Dan Feder Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 34:45 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Feder: UMich endowment spending uses a rolling 28-quarter average, not current marks
“In the case of Michigan, our spending rule is based on a rolling 28 quarter average value. So we're really not spending off those current marks.”
Dan Feder Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 9:29 #66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More or Less Podcast

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#66: Meta Connect, the Hardware Renaissance (or Not?) and Special Guest Dan Feder · More o Sep 27, 2024 8m
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