78: Avlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList Venture

This week we dove into the future of venture capital. For an industry that is singularly focused on disruptive innovation, venture capital has largely stayed out of the spotlight from new challengers and disruptors. Until now. It’s why I was so excited to chat this week with Avlok Kohli, CEO at AngelList Venture on the future of venture capital, opportunities for innovation in the system and the implications for expanding entrepreneurship.

AngelList Venture is focused on answering the question - what is possible if software played a bigger role in how we financed companies. Avlok brought a deep first principles perspective to the show and we touched on a number of topics: (1) the importance of expanding the pie vs. zero sum thinking, (2) how a venture fund would be built today if it was on the rails of software vs. traditional service guilds, (3) how the internet gives creators infinite leverage and (4) why we are in the bottom of the first inning for technology.