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ANGEL: Surviving a down market, early VC stories & more with four-cycle investor Geoff Yang | E1676

This Week in Startups

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What Was It Like Trying to Break Into Venture Capital?

In 1985, the aggregate amount of capital that was raised in the industry was like 3.7 billion. Most venture firms didn't recruit people fresh out of grad school. And so it was just kind of pounding the pavement and kind of grinding through it. But I got my foot in the door.

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