#206 with Brianne Kimmel - How Venture Capitalists Make Money

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode Sam (@theSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) are joined by solo capitalist Brianne Kimmel (@briannekimmel). They talk about how Bri got started in investing, the pros and cons of her busy schedule, and discuss some of the unicorns she's invested in. They also discuss a cool use of deepfakes, how VCs make money, and whether or not college is worth the price of admission. --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Show notes: * (1:00) Intro * (2:25) The Shake Up - a new podcast on the HubSpot Podcast Network * (6:52) GPT-3 and Anthony Bourdain * (11:40) A cool use of deepfakes * (13:31) Meet Brianne Kimmel * (16:14) Bri's crazy schedule * (21:39) How VCs make money * (37:33) Hot spaces Bri sees * (40:54) Is higher education worth it? * (50:31) Winners Bri sees in her portfolio

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0:00.0	If you could get into a top 20 university and you have to get going to a ton of debt,
0:04.0	it is 100% worth it. In that, if that's the case, it ain't broken. I think it's doing great.
0:22.4	Okay, finally. My first bit, by the way, you know, when you're listening to this,
0:27.3	it's all going to sound smooth, but we've just recorded this like three times because remote work
0:31.7	still sucks a little bit. All right, QuickBag to tell you about another podcast that we're
0:37.6	interested in right now. HuffSpot just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.
0:43.1	Every week, the host relived the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty
0:47.6	Potty to the Mention a Bench, to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were winners
0:53.3	or losers, and each company's go to market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.
0:58.5	Basically, all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your company
1:03.1	on your own. If you want to give it a listen, you can find another bite on whatever podcast
1:07.1	that I've been listening to, like Apple or Spotify or whatever you're using right now. All right,
1:10.9	back to the show. But we have Bree here. Bree Kimmel is an investor in mostly, I think,
1:17.6	work related products. Maybe you could tell us why it's so hard. All right, let me just read
1:23.5	three things off your little bio thing here that I think are interesting. So solo capitalist,
1:28.8	so you raised your own fund by yourself after never having worked in VC before that. Is that correct?
1:34.2	That's correct. Okay, great. Another one. According to this, you have invested in seven unicorns
1:39.4	already, which is kind of nutty. What are the seven? Yeah, so started work life about a year and a
1:45.2	half ago invested in Hoppin webflow, which was an angel investment from when I was at Zendesk,
1:52.7	pipe, public, a bunch of interesting companies and sort of future workspace.
1:58.6	Okay, well, that's pretty impressive. Okay, and then another one that's on here that I think
2:04.1	is kind of interesting that I think we should just jump in on. I don't know Sam, where do you
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