The amount you need to invest yen aso the fee gets to be more material, ond the expenses don't. And so all of a sudden you get these interesting situations where the g ps are more chasing the next fee than they are to carry as an l p. It's something of a stage thing, right? If you're doing seeds, those dollars aren't going to scale the same as if you're doing series bs or cs. The lines of demarcation that i've heard them talk about end up being different across what stages you're focusing on.
(00:08) Welcome Zach Weinberg
(00:55) Andreessen Horowitz/Flow Carbon
(10:41) Crypto Litigation Risk
(16:27) Venture vs. Hedge Funds
(22:25) Sequoia’s Leaked Deck
(27:04) Different Kind of Crisis
(28:20) Tech Companies Had It Easy
(30:21) Uber vs. Lyft
(34:16) Down Rounds
(40:27) High Valuation Doesn’t Mean Good Employment
(45:31) 2008 Work Force
(49:50) Parker Conrad Intro
(50:13) Working on Harvard’s Crimson
(52:45) Left School for a Little Rock Newspaper
(55:13) Cancer Diagnosis
(57:16) Starting SigFig
(58:52) Raising Money Pre-2013
(1:05:29) Challenges in Automating
(1:08:36) The Public Narrative
(1:10:36) Forced Out of Zenefits
(1:19:50) VC’s Role in Narrative
(1:22:59) What Do Founders Want From VCs?
(1:25:46) Do VCs Increase Success?
(1:30:09) Discussing Rippling
(1:38:16) Building a Compound Company
(1:46:56) Hiring People With a Chip On Their Shoulder
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About the Show
Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.
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