Dry Powder in Venture Capital, VC Ratings, and more with Grady Buchanan and Victor Gutwein | E1895
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Todays show:
David Weisburd hosts Grady Buchanan, Victor Gutwein, and Jason Calacanis to discuss dry powder in VC (1:38), VCs rating VCs (14:22), a study on whether returns persist in venture capital (29:33), and much more
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Timestamps:
(0:00) David Weisburd hosts Grady Buchanan, Victor Gutwein, and Jason Calacanis
(1:38) VC dry powder levels, cash management by GPs, and investment pace adjustments.
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(14:22) The importance of GP selection for LPs, VC firm ratings, and the impact of relationships in the VC ecosystem
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(29:33) Performing due diligence on funds and the persistence of VC Returns
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(51:41) Rapid-fire segment on top recent investments
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| 0:00.0 | today everyone's a GP, |
| 0:02.0 | everyone raised a fund in the past or they're still trying to raise a fund. |
| 0:06.0 | And they all, a lot of them seem somewhat similar |
| 0:08.0 | and it's hard for us to separate signal from the noise right as LPs, |
| 0:12.0 | especially when you're a smaller fund-to- of funds and everyone's coming at you to try to raise capital, |
| 0:16.4 | much less the bigger guys that we kind of know that we don't have access to it today, but it's trying to find the ones that speak like you guys do. |
| 0:22.3 | Like, oh, here's what I'm trying to grow |
| 0:23.6 | here's where I came from here's where the industry is today like you don't have to have been in it |
| 0:27.0 | the last 20 years to understand what has happened or where you kind of want to position |
| 0:31.0 | yourself for the future but if you can't go through that story and you can't talk about it as a general partner, then those are really tough ones to get behind. |
| 0:39.0 | And I do think we'll see this weeding out of probably most of them in the near future but these 45% we'd |
| 0:45.2 | expect to continue to they need to continue to do well right for this industry. |
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