You're Looking at Networks Wrong | Albert Azout | Superclusters | S5E5

“Networks are more persistent than performance.” – Albert Azout

Albert Azout is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Level VC, a technology investment firm built on software and data science and invests in both entrepreneurs and venture capital managers, including the likes of Air Street Capital, Emergent Ventures and Work-Bench, just to name a few. Prior to Level, Albert has been a serial founder, starting analytics businesses and even a social media company before Facebook.

You can find Albert on his socials here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertazout/

Substack: http://albertazout.substack.com/

OUTLINE:

[00:00] Intro

[02:36] The origin of Albert's blog

[04:45] How did Albert first start coding?

[07:43] Albert's interest in networks

[13:10] Entrepreneurship around Albert

[16:27] What is collaborative filtering?

[22:18] How complexity economics affect the networks of VCs?

[27:14] Fear and greed regimes

[28:51] Telltale signs that inform the kind of regime you're in

[30:31] Why it's the wrong time to be investing in defense tech

[34:53] What are most LPs missing about GP networks?

[37:31] How is Level VC looking at networks differently?

[44:42] Archetypes of GPs that Albert likes

[46:43] The 3 advantages GPs need to have

[55:02] How does Albert balance over- vs under-diligencing?

[57:15] Albert's view on luck

[57:47] Albert the "consciousness expert"

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