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20VC: Bain's Matt Harris on Why Valuation And Market Size Are Not The Most Important Thing At Series A, Why Backing Sociopaths Can Work & Late Cycle Momentum Investing & The Changes That Will Stay in Venture Forever

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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Series A Valuations Don't Matter

I endeavoured not to change my cadence. If we talk about a kind of cadence adnd massing fuss and kind of the market tlimbing, so to speak, i always con pull back and say, no, thi ridiculous. So our goal has been to advance three or 400 million dollars a year. Aquitiso like a lot of money, but many of those ar large shacks and later stage companies. Fully half of it is your classic five to 12 million dollars series a. Our discipline here at the series a is largely focused on ownership versus pure valuation. We don't obsess about series a valuation. I mean, we gain to get onto price.

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