How to co-invest with other firms (VC School) + Electric Sea Gliders: REGENT Co-Founder Billy Thalheimer | E1493
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
For today's VC Sunday School, Molly asks Jason about co-investing with other VC firms (3:11). Then for This Week in Climate Startups, Molly sits down with REGENT co-founder Billy Thalheimer to talk about the ins and outs of their electric sea gliders (29:46).
(0:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show!
(3:11) VC Sunday School: Co-investing with other VC firms, how and when to do it
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(14:16) Co-investing in a down market + the manners of sharing deal flow
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(22:49) More on sharing deal flow
(26:21) Toss to This Week in Climate Startups
(29:46) TWiCS: Billy Thalheimer, co-founder of REGENT, on their electric sea gliders
(39:52) Microsoft for Startups Hub - Apply in 5 minutes, no funding required, sign up at http://aka.ms/thisweekinstartups
(41:01) REGENT sea gliders’ physics + regulatory benefits
(58:45) Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, happy Sunday everyone. Thank you for learning with us. |
| 0:04.4 | It is, if that's part of your Sunday. |
| 0:06.9 | I love doing this. We're going to kick off with a VC Sunday school about |
| 0:10.4 | co-investing with other VC firms. This is a major topic. |
| 0:14.0 | When do you do it? When do you not do it? What are the rules of the road? |
| 0:17.6 | What's polite? What's impolite? We should talk about all these things. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah, and as you know, this is going in the order in which I am discovering these things as a |
| 0:27.4 | low-baby VC. This has come up recently. Then in this week in climate startups, we have a |
| 0:32.0 | super interesting conversation with Billy Tallheimer from Regent, which first came up on our show |
| 0:37.6 | as startup of the day. This is the company that's making the electric sea gliders that |
| 0:43.0 | like zip right over the ocean for regional travel to replace, I mean, to be a new transportation |
| 0:50.1 | category that's all electric and super interesting. |
| 0:54.8 | Oh, this is the one. It's not an electric plane. It's basically like a ferry that looks like |
| 0:59.9 | a plane and that it lifts itself out of the water and flies just above the water, right? |
| 1:04.2 | It doesn't fly in boat. It's like a flying boat. It's such a genius idea. |
| 1:07.7 | It's so interesting. I know. I think this could change, especially if I don't know if you |
| 1:13.1 | why it was brought up, but I've always wondered why there aren't fairies between |
| 1:17.0 | Hawaiian islands. They're like, it's too far. It doesn't make sense. So you're forced to take |
| 1:22.0 | a flight and I'm like, oh, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me what I guess it does. |
| 1:25.8 | First launch partner operates in Florida and that's kind of like Atlantic corridor and the Hawaiian |
| 1:35.4 | islands. So they're already that's likely where they're going to launch this craft. |
| 1:39.6 | So cool. I mean transportation is going to be so different in the next 10 years. |
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