354. The VC Networking Playbook, Credit and Pricing Risk in New Asset Classes, and How VC Market Hype Should Impact Stage Focus and Net Buy/Sell Positions (Ali Hamed)
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
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How Did You Get Into Venture Capital?
In college, you tried to start a company that didn't work out in college. So how did that lead to you getting into venture capital? Was this sort of the seedlings of these firms? Or was this kind of precursor to that? Yeah. I realized that nobody was ever going to give us capital to invest because we had no tracker for a resume. And so we ended up building a pretty big credit business quickly. Use that credit business to generate deal flow and everything else allowed us to go build an actual venture capital fund.
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