How Big Funds Change the Startup Ecosystem (VC Sunday School) + Climate: Include Ventures' Taj Ahmad Eldridge | E1407

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sunday double-header. First, Jason and Molly discuss the impact of large funds on the startup ecosystem, how fund size influences firm strategy and why big funds often seed smaller funds (2:21). For the This Week in Climate Startups segment, Molly chats with Taj Ahmad Eldridge from Include Ventures (29:42). They discuss:

1. How Taj's experience with negative health impacts from pollution helped guide his investing focus

2. Include Venture's unique fund of funds and direct investment strategy

3. Why Taj is not afraid of hardware investing (and how it's paying off)

4. How government branches can support climate tech progress

Show Notes:

(0:00) Jason and Molly introduce VC Sunday School + Taj from Include Ventures
(02:21) VCSS, Molly asks Jason if big funds are ideal
(11:30) Bubble - Get one month free of a no-code plan at https://bubble.io/twist
(12:57) Can a fund become too big to manage?
(18:20) Big funds seeding small funds and Jason's falling out with Marc Andreessen
(21:43) Coda - The All-in-one doc for teams, get a $1,000 credit at https://coda.io/twist
(23:00) Building relationships in venture
(28:10) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(29:42) This Week in Climate Startups with Taj Eldridge of Include Ventures
(37:28) Taj's first-hand experience with the negative externalities of pollution
(51:46) Can software investing really help solve the Climate Crisis?
(1:05:31) The latest from TWIST and Launch

Check out Include Ventures: https://www.includeventures.com/

FOLLOW Taj: https://twitter.com/Econoahmad
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome. Welcome. We have another Sunday edition of this week in climate
0:04.6	startups for you. Get your coffee, snuggle into your bathroom. Today, I sit down with Taj.
0:09.7	Get a bagel. Get a bagel. If you want. If you want. I sit down with, if you're doing the
0:14.8	carb thing, Taj Eldridge of Include Ventures recently raised $250 million to invest in. Yeah.
0:21.3	So we're going to talk more about that. But to invest in black and brown fund managers and
0:26.8	founders with a focus on clean tech, health tech, in tech, and media. All right. But first,
0:32.7	it's time for VC Sunday School, every Sunday we've been doing this. And you can go back into the
0:37.9	archive, just look at the Sunday episodes to get this really just great combo. VC Sunday School,
0:43.2	where we talk about different questions Molly has on her journey to become a legendary venture
0:49.1	investor. And I look into my 11 years of experience and see if I can help her. Today, we're going to
0:54.4	talk about these giant funds and their dynamics of these mega crossover funds. And I give a little
0:59.6	bit of historical background on the mark in recent blocking beef that I've had for the last decade.
1:04.2	Stick it like. I like how you call it a little bit of historical background and not like,
1:08.1	dish the dish. No, it's a little history, a little history. It's a tiny bit of tea. I did notice
1:13.6	when we were recording this, some notice asking if you go to our YouTube page, youtube.com slash
1:18.9	week in. There is in fact a playlist of all of the this weekend climate startups and VC Sunday
1:25.9	school segments like all you could just binge it all. You're rip it one at a time. But today is
1:31.4	going to be a great show. And so stick with us. This weekend startups is brought to you by Bubble.
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1:56.6	Coda is the all-in-one doc for teams. If you've got a stack of niche workflow tools or if you get
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