Requests For Startups: Hard Tech with Trae Vassallo and Lee Edwards

Erik is joined on this episode by Trae Vassallo (@trae) of Defy and Lee Edwards (@terronk) of Root Ventures.

They talk about:

- How their backgrounds and unique experiences have informed their perspectives on investing

- Whether venture capital should go back to funding technical risk

- Their advice for funds and how Trae has seen investing strategies come and go over time

- Why there are big opportunities in areas VCs don’t know much about, like logistics, warehousing, or agriculture

- Why Trae doesn’t differentiate between consumer and enterprise businesses

- Their requests for startups in the space

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