ANGEL: Insight's Deven Parekh on venture tourists, cleaning cap tables & winning investments | E1679
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Deven Parekh of Insight Partners joins Jason to discuss navigating markets during the dot com era and the pandemic. (1:50) Then they discuss "venture tourists" and cleaning up cap tables before wrapping up with a look back at some of Deven's winning investments. (20:04)
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:50) Experiencing the dot com burst
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(11:36) Comparing Web 3.0 and the dot com era + navigating the markets during the pandemic
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(20:04) Venture Tourists
(29:30) Unfavorable preference stacks
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(38:32) Cleaning a cap table
(47:57) Looking back at Deven’s investments
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, today we're back with an amazing episode of Angel. |
| 0:04.8 | This is one of the best episodes we've ever done |
| 0:07.4 | of this podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Devon Perreck is here from Insight. |
| 0:10.9 | Devon started his career as an analyst at Blackstone in 1991 |
| 0:13.6 | when I was still at Fordham, at college at night, |
| 0:16.2 | and I was doing Cyber Surfer Magazine, |
| 0:18.4 | writing about DVDs, and then he moved to Berencineco, |
| 0:22.1 | but in 2000 he joined Insight. |
| 0:23.8 | He's been there for 22 years. |
| 0:26.2 | He's seen three cycles that Doc Combust, |
| 0:29.3 | the great financial crisis, remember that? |
| 0:31.6 | And now this boom bust. |
| 0:33.2 | In that time, he's made over 140 investments. |
| 0:36.4 | And these are in big companies. |
| 0:38.0 | We had an amazing conversation. |
| 0:40.2 | He is one of the most thoughtful, |
| 0:42.2 | fascinating guys in our industry, |
| 0:44.1 | a great capital allocator. |
| 0:45.5 | And he takes the work seriously, right? |
| 0:47.5 | And that's what I'm trying to do here with this series, |
| 0:50.0 | is find the people who've been there for three, |
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