From PM to GP: Roach Capital's Fahd Ananta | Angel S6 E6 + OK Boomer: Dive Chat | E1390

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

00:00 Jason intros the show, Roach Captial's first fund, and Producer Rachel's interview with the Dive Chat founder01:33 Angel Season 6 - First Time Funds
04:07 Fahd Ananta of Roach Capital's path from founder to PM to VC
06:08 Fahd's Angel investing beginnings in at Shopify
10:20 How Fahd made the transition from Angel investing to raising a fund
13:03 Ourcrowd - Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist
14:11 Using geography (Canada) as a competitive advantage to raise capital as a VC
18:34 How Fahd has differentiates himself to founders
22:15 Embroker - Get an extra 10% off insurance for your business at https://Embroker.com/twist
23:19 Fahd's investing thesis
26:05 Early winners in Fahd's portfolio
32:33 LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/AngelPod
34:09 Ok Boomer, Producer Rachel talks to John Herrick, the CTO of Dive Chat a new messaging and event app

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0:00.0	Okay, we have an amazing show for you today. First up, I interview Fad Ananta for Angel season six. He runs Roach Ventures.
0:08.9	Get it Cockroach Ventures. Founders with Grit who will never give up and he shares some really honest insights about raising your first venture fund.
0:17.0	He did 25 angel investments and then he raised somewhere around a $5 million fund and he's in the midst of deploying it.
0:23.0	Lots of lessons there and it's Friday, so producer Rachel, Rachel reporting his back
0:28.5	with another edition of Okay Boomer and she understood the assignment stick with us. It's going to be a great show.
0:36.3	Season six of Angel is brought to you by our crowd helps you invest early in free IPO companies alongside professional VCs.
0:46.4	If you're interested in investing, you can join our crowd for free at OUR,
0:52.4	CROWD.com slash angel. Embroker Startup Insurance Program helps start up secure the most important types of insurance at a lower cost and with less hassle.
1:06.1	Save up to 20% off of traditional insurance today at Embroker.com slash twist.
1:12.8	While you're there, get an extra 10% off using offer code twist and LinkedIn marketing to redeem a $100
1:22.3	LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com slash angel pod.
1:31.2	Hey everybody, welcome to episode six of Angel season six. This is the series we do as an extension of
1:39.4	this week in startups where we talk to capital allocators, a fancy word for angel investors, seed funds,
1:46.5	and venture funds, even syndicates and accelerators could be considered part of capital allocation.
1:53.2	What do capital allocators do? They pull together some pool of capital and they look for opportunities to
2:01.2	invest it in high growth companies in the venture space, private company space. We're looking for very high
2:06.4	growth companies because most startups fail. You can look at them as experiments. That doesn't mean the
2:12.2	founders are failures. It just means that experiment failed and they move on to the next experiment.
2:17.9	Typically, we see founders on their second, third, fourth one. They can get on base or even hit a
2:22.8	home run and so it's very exciting to be a capital allocator and one of the most exciting things
2:28.0	over the past decade and I'm in my eleventh year now of investing is that investing in startups
2:34.8	and creating funds has been massively democratized. We're seeing many, many, many more people start
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