Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital

[REPLAY] Investing with Penny Pritzker & Building a Robust Venture & Growth Practice w/ Momei Qu, PSP Partners

Feb 22, 2024

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“If you can show strong growth in this environment, that means you’re getting corporate budgets at a time when corporate budgets are tightening.”

As we continue to emerge from the belt-tightening era in investment and venture, now is an opportune moment to revisit an episode featuring Momei Qu, Managing Director of PSP Growth.

Momei carved her own path in leadership, having worked with one of the trailblazers, the esteemed Penny Pritzker, former United States Secretary of Commerce and American billionaire businesswoman known for family investments in Hyatt Hotels and Marmon Group.

Today, Momei, who leads PSP's venture capital and growth equity initiative, shares her leadership lessons, from collaborating with a trailblazer to building a robust venture and growth practice and focusing on the future of B2B SaaS despite the valuation slashes we've witnessed.

TIMESTAMPS / KEYTAKEAWAYS

0:00 Intro

0:55 Recognizing the gap in commercializing technology

2:40 Joining Merrill Lynch and stepping into venture

06:01 Skillset as both engineer and venture investor; upbringing and exposure to deals

8:10 Working with Penny Pritzker's private investment group; “If you don't ask for something, you might not get it.”

12:28 PSP’s collaborative strategies: ventures, multi-family and industrial properties, private equity, etc; “I've been pleasantly surprised, the unexpected piece of how collaborative everyone has been, and how much better it has been to unlock the power of the whole platform.”

17:07 Takes on allocation and balancing investments for family offices

19:11 Investing in adversed time and building a robust venture practice; on me too companies

21:28 Solutions that go hand in hand with the market and the focus on B2B SaaS

24:44 Notable patterns in SaaS

27:42 Takes on B2B SaaS application and AI technologies: security and responsibilities

30:50 Takes on founder’s limits and ethics in AI tech innovation

32:45 Diligence as an investor

34:24 Billion Dollar Questions

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