20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall

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🗓️ 26 March 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Matthew McCall is a Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital and was previously a Partner with DFJ Portage. He has been involved with investments with Feedburner (acquired by Google), Playdom (acquired by Disney) and EverDream (acquired by Dell), just to name a few. Matt has been named in Chicago's '40 under 40' and their Top Tech 25 list. He has been named as one of the Top 100 VCs in the US, a Media 100 and a Hollywood 100 Power Player.

Items Mentioned in Todays Show:

In todays show, you will learn:

How Matt got into the VC world?
What is Matt's normal investment size?
When investing does Matt have a mental timeline of the startup with a clear strategy of when a desired exit will take place?
Matt has been named to the AlwaysOnTop 100 VCs list, leading me to ask how has Matt's investment strategy changed over the years? What were his early deals? What did Matt learn from them? What does Matt do differently now?
Matt has written about the 15 year tech cycle and has quoted Steve Juvertson ‘if you can see it, it isn’t the revolution’, leading me to ask where does Matt stand on a ‘tech bubble’. Is it occurring and why does he say that?
Has Matt seen a rise in the emergence of the female entrepreneur?
Matt LOVES commencement speeches. Why is that and are there any Matt would recommend in particular?

The episode will then finish with a quick fire round where we hear the resource that Matt would most recommend to an aspiring Founder and Matt's recent investment and why he said yes?

*Shortly after the interview Matt strongly recommended to me Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 22 of the 20 minute VC with Harry Stebbings.
0:05.3	Now on today's show, I'm so excited to welcome Matt McCool.
0:08.9	Matt is partner at Prisker Group, and previously Matt was partner with DFJ Portage.
0:15.3	Matt's past investments include Feed Burner acquired by Google, Playdom, which was acquired by Disney, and Everdream,
0:22.1	which was acquired by Dell. And that's just naming a few. Matt's incredible success has led to
0:27.2	Chicago naming him in the 40 under 40, in their top tech 25, and he has been named in the top 100
0:34.7	VCs in the US, and he is also a Hollywood 100 power player. But before we jump
0:40.3	into the interview, if you would like the chance to win all the books mentioned in the next five
0:44.8	interviews, then please do leave a review at iTunes for the 20 minute VC and then email Harry at the 20
0:52.5	minute VC with the name that you left the review under on iTunes.
0:56.6	But without further ado, it's time to hear from Matt.
0:59.9	Three, two, one, zero.
1:05.2	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:08.4	Well, Matt, welcome to the 20 minute VC.
1:10.4	It's a great pleasure to have you on the show.
1:12.9	First, can you tell us a little about yourself and how you got into the venture capital
1:16.7	world?
1:18.5	You know, it's interesting when you, a lot of people ask how they can get into the venture
1:23.2	capital world, and almost every single person has a very unique approach or a way they get in.
1:32.5	I think you had interviewed my colleague, Mr. Hornick, who's from the legal side.
1:40.9	Some people come in from the operation side.
1:44.1	In my case, I had been early on an athletic
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