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Josh Wolfe predicts 30% to 50% of VC firms will shut down
“Josh Wolf at Lux Capital wrote his quarterly letter and he predicted that 30 to 50% of venture firms would cease to exist.”
Social Capital previously attempted and failed to merge with Kleiner Perkins
“There's one point where social capital tried to join Kleiner Perkins for a variety of reasons that didn't work. Mamoon ended up joining Kleiner and is now managing the fund.”
Data shows only 17% of venture capital funds survive to Fund IV
“At least like the data I've seen is only 17% of venture funds make it to fund four.”
Kurzweil, Shen, and Goldberg left top VC platforms to form a partnership
“The recent examples I think are most interesting would be like Ethan from Bessemer, Christina Shen from Andreessen Horwitz, and Mark Goldberg from Index Ventures joining, leaving those large platforms to form like a real partnership, right?”