Navigating Venture Capital
Samir and Kanyi discuss the importance of staying true to your investment swim lane to achieve success in the competitive venture capital landscape. They emphasize the value of setting constraints to maintain focus and alignment with both LPs and founders, ultimately leading to better outcomes.In this clip
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How should a venture capitalist think about investing across different stages (seed vs. growth) and having different funds for it, as discussed in the episode 20VC: Will LPs Pull Out of Existing Managers, How Will Fund Sizes Change Moving Forward, Is Now The Time to be Aggressive on Secondaries, What is the Discount on Secondaries Today, Who Will Win and Lose in the Next Five Years with Hunter Somerville, Partn and the clip Changing Venture Capital?
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