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Mission-Driven Founders, Global Investing, and Canva (with Wesley Chan)

Dec 30, 2021

20:11

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Are You Seeing the Passion of Missionary Founders?

02:40

Is There a Market for Pencilsa, Two Dogs?

04:32

Are You Telling Me I Shouldn't Have an Exit Strategy Slide in My Deck?

02:48

Introduction

4min

The Pushback From Venture Capital Partners

2min

Are You Seeing the Passion of Missionary Founders?

3min

Venture Capital - It's a Hard Thing to Tell Over Zoom

2min

Are You Telling Me I Shouldn't Have an Exit Strategy Slide in My Deck?

3min

Is There a Market for Pencilsa, Two Dogs?

5min

Last month, Ben sat down with Wesley Chan at Web Summit for a quick, 18-minute interview. The conversation was supposed to be about global investing in 2021 as an early-stage VC, but the conversation turned mostly into the origin story of Wesley's (unbelievably good) seed investment in Canva.

Wesley's firm Felicis Ventures invested pre-revenue, leading the seed round, and Canva is valued at $40 billion today. Wesley dives into the details (and why he invested in the first place!) in this interview.

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