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Hunter Walk: Homebrew's 2013 fund ranks in the top one percent
“Like, even if that fund didn't return another dollar, we'd be like a top one percent fund, and fortunately, it's gonna return more dollars.”
Hunter Walk: Midas List inclusion forces confidential disclosures and deal attribution
“Anyone who's on the Midas list no matter what their firm says, they've turned over, you know, information to a third party about their portfolio. And they've decided internally that somebody gets to claim credit for that deal. Whether it's the person who deser…”
Walk: Homebrew IV invests assuming it will only write one check
“When we write a check into a company as homebrew four we hope to have the opportunity to continue to support or, you know, put more capital in if it makes sense, but we make it, we write that check, assuming It'll be the only check we write and that the juice …”
Walk: Homebrew gives carried interest to every employee at the firm
“We've always given anybody who works for homebrew carry in the fund. So our head of ops, you know, executive assistant, our head of talent in addition to getting salaries and bonuses, they are, they get unbounded upside. In our success.”
Hunter Walk: An investor's thesis is their portfolio, not their blog posts
“Your thesis is your portfolio page. It's not your tweets. It's not your blog post. It's not your market maps. The saddest thing in the world is to be an investor who, like, gets all of those right, but then doesn't invest in the best companies. ... Then you're…”
Walk: Homebrew had extreme LP concentration in its first two funds
“We went from four LPs in our first one that made up, like, 90% to eight in the second one that made up about, like, 97%”
Walk: Homebrew targets 10-12 annual seed investments of $100k-$500k
“We're going to keep our firm together. We're going to make the same number of investments each year, 10 to 12. But instead of having an ownership target that forces a certain check size, so, and so forth, we're going to write most checks between a hundred K an…”
Hunter Walk: Homebrew's first two funds achieved over 120% capital recycling
“Our first two funds, I think are all maybe are a hundred north of a 120% recycling. So we really double triple down recycling as people, you know, I was using the example before of you draw down fees, right. But you have to invest the whole amount recycling is…”