The risk in the market right now is you have a lot of firms out there with really large portfolios, where they don't have sufficient kind of headcount to really work with the companies. So if you look at our professionals per portfolio company, ratio has gone down even though our portfolio size has gone up dramatically. And so this is as much time as we can right now with companies. This is critically important.
Deven Parekh of Insight Partners joins Jason to discuss navigating markets during the dot com era and the pandemic. (1:50) Then they discuss "venture tourists" and cleaning up cap tables before wrapping up with a look back at some of Deven's winning investments. (20:04)
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:50) Experiencing the dot com burst
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(11:36) Comparing Web 3.0 and the dot com era + navigating the markets during the pandemic
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(20:04) Venture Tourists
(29:30) Unfavorable preference stacks
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(38:32) Cleaning a cap table
(47:57) Looking back at Deven’s investments
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