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
Nov 15, 2024 negative
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…”
Nov 19, 2024 negative
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 …”
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Dec 12, 2024 positive
Jan 18, 2025
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.”
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
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.”
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
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…”
May 31, 2025
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…”
Jun 5, 2025 bullish
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 …”