Ep. 789: Scott Kupor Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Scott Kupor, the managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz. He has overseen the firm’s rapid growth to one hundred fifty employees and more than $7 billion in assets under management.

The topic is his book Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation?
Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category?
Why the skill you need most when raising venture capital is the ability to tell a compelling story?
How to handle a “down round,” when startups have to raise funds at a lower valuation than in the previous round?
What to do when VCs get too entangled in the day-to-day operations of the business?
Why you need to build relationships with potential acquirers long before you decide to sell?

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	It never gets dull with this podcast.
0:40.4	So many interesting people, so many very smart people,
0:46.8	so many very successful people, I get to stay in school my entire life. I mean, actually,
0:57.4	I have a side gig of running my world too, but this is my educational option, my educational out where I come to get schooled.
0:59.9	Today I'm getting schooled by Scott Kapoor.
1:03.1	He's a managing partner at Andresen Horowitz.
1:06.6	That would be Mark Andresen, Scott's partner.
1:12.5	Mark Andresen, who happens to have launched Netscape back in the day. Very cool stuff.
1:16.3	Something that definitely changed my life when it happened, that's for sure.
1:24.6	And today is subject near and dear for entrepreneurs, perhaps for venture capitalist as well, too. But there's probably far fewer venture capitalists than there are entrepreneurs.
1:30.7	Scott's book, The Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Venture Capital and How to Get It. This is a cookbook.
1:38.3	This is A to Z. I mean, he's telling you right there on the cover, venture capital and how to get it.
1:45.4	And guess what?
1:46.5	He tells you.
1:47.9	He's not saying it's easy.
1:49.8	He's not saying it's without work.
1:52.0	But he's telling you how the process works.
1:55.5	How you need to think as an entrepreneur and how you as an entrepreneur need to think about venture capitalists
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