How VCs view founders with a side hustle + Bringing ESG to VC with Joe Blair | E1557

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sunday special! First up, J+M break down how VCs view founders with a side hustle (1:44), and how founders can actually make their side hustles accretive to their startup. (12:45) Then, Molly interviews Bay Bridge Ventures Co-Founder & GP Joe Blair on his ESG-focused VC firm. (28:00)

(0:00 Molly tees up today's segments!

(1:44 How VCs view founders with multiple roles

(11:24) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist

(12:45) How to create side hustles that are accretive to your startup

(20:52) J+M tee up today's climate interview

(26:56) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist

(28:00) Joe Blair, Co-Founder & GP at Bay Bridge Ventures, joins Molly to break down his institutional ESG and sustainability-focused firm

(36:09) Spokn - Get 3 months free at https://getspokn.com/twist

(37:37) Bay Bridge's thesis, evaluating what qualifies as an ESG investment, diligence on hard tech, and more

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Sunday.
0:02.4	We have a great VC Sunday School today.
0:04.3	We're talking about founders who have other jobs,
0:07.2	the various times that that can work,
0:09.2	and the many, many times when unfortunately
0:11.1	we are unlikely to fund you if you have not quit your day job
0:14.6	to focus 100% on your startup.
0:16.9	And then I'm going to interview Joe Blair,
0:19.0	the co-founder and general partner at Baybridge Ventures
0:21.6	for this week in climate startups.
0:23.1	He is a climate investor who goes all the way back
0:25.5	to the first clean tech wars.
0:27.2	And Baybridge is a really interesting firm.
0:29.2	It is specifically focused on ESG and sustainability.
0:33.3	And we're going to talk about how they look at that,
0:35.9	the metrics that they use to measure that
0:37.7	in terms of their investing,
0:39.3	and just this lens on venture capital.
0:42.0	It's going to be a great show.
0:43.1	Stick with us.
0:44.0	This week in startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs.
0:48.2	A business is only as strong as its people
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason Calacanis, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jason Calacanis and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.