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How VC Firms Really Work

ACQ2 by Acquired

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Venture Investing - You Own Less Than 50 Companies?

The way you make money as a venture investor is by owning a lot of equity in a really valuable company or two. You're lucky, let's say two %. So that company does really well in it ipo is for two billion dollars. And you're like, this is great. L k, you own two percent of that. Yess its forty million dollars. The hypothetical fund size here is is a hundred million a so, ok, cool. That's your better company. Now 40% of the way to one xing. If we had 50 companies with three partners, we couldn't be that involved in i probably need associates, you're not that involved in each company

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