venture fund

also referred to as: venture funds

10 statements across 10 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · across every show →

Everything said about venture fund, oldest first

Oct 14, 2024
Insight
Hays: VC marketing should focus exclusively on founders and LPs
“As a venture fund, all of your marketing should be towards founders, which is one customer, and then, you know LPs, which is your other customer.”
Jordi Hays Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 51:06 The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Insight
Hays: Branding a VC fund around a specific industry is self-destructive
“I think that you're, it's okay as a VC to position yourself as an expert in a certain sector, but branding your venture fund as a specific industry is, is almost like committing seppuku because They're just simple. Almost always is not quite enough opportuniti…”
Jordi Hays Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 1:26:52 Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
Nov 19, 2024 negative
Insight
Hays: Working at mid-tier VC funds or family offices is a dead end
“The death zone is working at a mid fund or a family office and not being able to do a lot of deals because then you're not building up the brand value of working at a great firm and you're just not doing enough volume of deals so that you can build up a track …”
Jordi Hays Nov 19, 2024 ▶ 1:21:26 Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Hays: The average crypto fund has outperformed top 20% VC funds
“Historically, The average crypto fund has outperformed the average venture fund, or basically, no, the average crypto fund has outperformed, like, the top 20% venture fund.”
Jordi Hays Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 1:39:45 How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
Dec 12, 2024 positive
Insight
Venture funds are the ultimate price discrimination tool for media brands
“I mean, a venture fund is the, is like the best way to price discriminate in, in an audience of founders because the higher value the founder, the more money you make when you invest.”
John Coogan Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 8:34 Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
Jan 18, 2025
Assertion Supported
Hayes: Many Chinese VC Funds Require Founders to Sign Personal Guarantees
“In China, a lot of the venture funds are state funded and the founders have to sign like a full personal guarantee. So if you raise five million dollars and your company doesn't work out, they're going to take your house to like repay it.”
Jordi Hays Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 1:13:29 The END of TikTok?
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kohli says AngelList venture fund capital flows nearly doubled in Q1 2025
“Within our data, we're actually seeing capital flows increase Q one, 20, 41, 25 by almost a double. And into just venture funds. And like we talked about SPBs and all of that, but like just venture funds alone, capital flows are almost, have almost doubled.”
Avlok Kohli Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 11:11 Why LPs Are Using STABLECOINS to INVEST in Startups | Avlok Kohli on TBPN April 4th
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lessin: Secondary fund buyers only price winners and treat the rest as worthless
“If someone's buying a fund from you, They're really only buying the winners and the rest is bullshit, right? And like, so in an ideal world, they just carve out the pieces they want. Like, I want this position and this position and this position because I care…”
Sam Lessin Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 13:48 Is Venture Capital Broken? | Sam Lessin on TBPN
May 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dixon: Major LPs and Sovereign Funds Still Have 'No Crypto' Rules
“A lot of venture funds just simply, maybe they'll have a little bit of Bitcoin, but they'll, otherwise they'll rule it out if there's tokens and things. You talk to fund to funds. They, a lot of them will say we have a no crypto rule, you know, sovereign wealt…”
Chris Dixon May 31, 2025 ▶ 54:17 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
Jun 5, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Dixon: Crypto investing remains non-consensus among major institutional allocators
“As much as we hear about crypto, it's still very non-consensus. A lot of venture funds just simply, maybe they'll have a little bit of Bitcoin, but they'll, otherwise they'll rule it out if there's tokens and things. You talk to fund funds they, a lot of them …”
Chris Dixon Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 13:40 Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
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