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Satya Patel and Hunter Walk on learnings from building Homebrew, moving to an evergreen model, and launching Screendoor VC to back underrepresented fund managers

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

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The Importance of Diligence in Investing

One for me is how rarely folks sort of diligence their misses. You know, either we thought we knew some of the investors or it was in an area that we thought we had displayed expertise in. It's not enough just have a good reputation or be, or be liked. Like, those are table stakes. For really great opportunities, you have to figure out, or at least a certain cohort or type of founder or source of deal flow within a vertical. That's what's going to put you at the beginning of a cycle, at the start of a trend,. And then, you know, everything else is kind of like, you can write lots of great blog posts about your thesis

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