Despite many advances in industry transparency over the past ~10 years, much about the actual "jobs of a VC" remains locked inside firm/institutional knowledge and venture's apprenticeship model. With this series, we aim to change that. Our goal is to draw back the curtain on what the actual tasks are that VCs do day-to-day, how you can learn them, and ultimately what's required to succeed. We hope this series will be helpful both to anyone looking to break into the industry and to those who are already practicing and also for entrepreneurs and consumers of venture capital to understand more about the motivations and activities of those across the table!
We continue in this episode with (initial) investment decision-making: how it's done in practice across the industry, who within firms makes the decisions, and -- most importantly -- the incentives and behavioral finance elements that shape people's actions. Our goal on this one was to explain and hopefully bring to light a process that impacts nearly everyone in our industry, but few people are ever exposed to (and even then only rarely).
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The 2022 State of Crypto + Web3 with Solana's Austin Federa
Dissecting ProfitWell's Acquisition (with Patrick Campbell)
David Interviewed on "Unlimited Partners"
Travel for the Creator Economy
Reverse Interview: Ben and David at Vanta
Composer (with CEO Benjamin Rollert)
TradFi vs. Crypto, Explaining BNPL, and What's Next in Fintech (with Bain Capital Ventures' Christina Melas-Kyriazi)
Ben and David on "Capital Allocators"
10-K Diver: Building a Top Fintwit Account and Teaching Finance Principles to Everyone (Pseudonymously!)
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2021 Recap: Acquired x Not Boring x The Generalist
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Blue Origin and the 2021 Space Landscape (with Rob Meyerson)
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A Fireside Chat
Update on Dad Life, MacBook Pros, and Acquired Video
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