1. We were pitching a big Sandhill firm. Final partner meeting. The big partner is at the head of the table. He’s ignoring us. He has a stack of printed papers and is reading them and occasionally signing some. He was either signing contracts or autographs during the whole pitch. They did not invest.
2. Pitched a small VC via Zoom pre-covid. 6 people join. The lead partner turns off his video but not the sound. We hear a trickle, then a stream, then a flush, then a faucet. I didn’t hear soap. No one said anything. They did not invest.
NVIDIA went public at a $625M Valuation
Now companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX do not go public until they are $1 Trillion +
Public Markets need Venture Capital Access
APOLLO HOLDS TALKS TO SELL $3 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND: WSJ
they are making so much money on private credit they want to generously spread the wealth with outside investors
Career advice nobody told you: You have to demonstrate excellence in everything you do. Your income scales proportional to the amount of excellence that you're able to demonstrate. Strategic incompetence is a lie. You don't get to pick and choose when to show up, because the world will ignore your best and judge you for your worst. Everything matters. Every single thing. Top performers show up with energy and enthusiasm for the little things just as much as they do for the big things. If you're in the top-10% of performers, there's no ceiling for what you can do. But the self-awareness to identify where you currently stack up, and adapt to the honest feedback on it, is very rare. If you're in the top-10%, you know it. If you're not, figure out why and fix it.
@poke_maam@ankurnagpal@AngelList@usvc_ They call it a closed-end fund but its an evergreen structure (I didn’t see an end date to the capital raising)
They’re definitely compensating themselves well lol
About the premise, I guess but with their experience I am confident they know exactly what they’re doing