Investing in a Venture Capital Firm - Is It a Good Idea?

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Kim was not a venture capitalist before you rate. She was a journalist, if i remember correct. So eplayin that strategy is that because you were a new firm and you couldn't recruit like somebody who had worked at another venture firm, or you just preferred to a, you don't lik t. In other words, you weren't like a big market team with a big sat, thebig you weren't the yankee. Andso we have a pretty good hit rate of billion dollar companies so far. If you assume that we continue to be good at investing, then as long as you're working with each company every year, every year, we should have at least one...

1:02 Jason welcomes Alexis Ohanian to the show and asks about the Reddit sale & re-joining for the turnaround
3:39 Why was Reddit "the last website standing" from all of the Web 2.0 sales in the early 2000s?
6:05 History of Reddit Gold, future of micropayments & what will Reddit's Blockchain venture entail?
14:59 Future of creators being able to monetize using micropayments, policing speech on Reddit
19:45 Fatherhood, being a Girl Dad, balancing personal life & work life
29:12 What is Alexis' role at Initialized? How Initialized is turning Venture Capital into a team sport
36:10 Dealing with celebrity as a partner at a VC firm, building talent when starting Initialized
42:44 Why Initialized's small ownership percentage was an issue early on, and how they think about it now
47:59 Jason calls Reddit's crypto project: "The most credible thing I've ever seen in crypto.", parsing through legitimate and non-legitimate crypto businesses
54:33 What investor skills has Alexis improved and what still needs work?
1:00:52 Dealing with icon-level celebrity in his personal life
1:04:30 Jason reveals the winner from their 2013 bet during Alexis' last appearance on This Week in Startups