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Oren Zeev on scaling to $2B+ in AUM as a solo-GP, contrarian investing, and high founder NPS

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

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The Importance of Having a Partner in a Partnership

Mike Maples: I'm very committed to keeping doing exactly the same because I have a playbook that is working. And even as importantly, the founders will enjoy, you know, really appreciated and like it. The fact that they don't need to deal with the partnership or institution, but basically with a person. From a scale perspective of the investment side, they can get significant support in dollars from that investor. So let's contrarian. We all know that the best deals are the ones that have some element of contrarian thinking in them. They may actually add value by preventing from doing bad deals, but they will never cause you to do deals or drive you toDo deals that you

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