Optimizing fund structure, GP market fit, & more with Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode | Episode 1917
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Todays show:
Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode joins Jason to discuss the evolution of early-stage fund managers (3:00), effective portfolio construction (11:18), qualities of high-performing GPs (38:37), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Screendoor’s Jamie Rhode joins Jason
(3:00) Early-stage fund managers today, spray and pray vs. concentrated bets, and importance of GP market fit
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(11:18) Effective portfolio construction, investing in startups that are creating new sectors, and finding the right fund managers
(17:28) Why seed stage investing attracts fewer GPs than series A or B
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(24:28) Quantity of GPs to invest in and Screendoor’s approach to the DEI landscape
(32:22) Gelt - It’s time to take control over your taxes. Visit http://joingelt.com/twist now.
(33:35) Carry, Fees, and the percentage of a fund that Screendoor targets
(38:37) Qualities of high-performing GPs
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| 0:00.0 | the Coinbase, the Airbnbs, the Uber's, they created brand new sectors, they created brand new areas of the market. |
| 0:07.7 | So for us, we need to be willing to roll up our sleeves and find venture managers that have been overlooked in the ecosystem because there's such |
| 0:16.2 | untapped potential by the networks or the ideas or the founders that they can fund and that can allow us to break this virtuous |
| 0:25.9 | cycle and get more capital out to a lot of what I view as the edges or the |
| 0:31.8 | tails are truly the untapped potential in the ecosystem. |
| 0:36.0 | This weekend startups is brought to you by Miro. |
| 0:41.0 | Working remotely doesn't mean you need to feel disconnected from your team. |
| 0:45.0 | Miro is an online whiteboard that brings teams together anytime, anywhere. |
| 0:51.0 | Go to Miro.com slash startups to sign up for a free account with unlimited team |
| 0:57.2 | members. HubSpot YouTube Network. Whether you're a marketer, a sales rep, or an entrepreneur, HubSpot has you covered with its |
| 1:06.0 | tutorials and AI-powered tools. It's all guaranteed to make your work day easier. |
| 1:11.3 | Check out the links in the description to learn more about HubSpot's AI content |
| 1:16.5 | writer and start using HubSpot's tools for free. And Gelt. It's time to take control over your taxes. Discover how Guilt can help you to |
| 1:27.2 | manage and optimize your personal and business taxes. Visit join Guilt.com slash Twist now. |
| 1:34.0 | All right everybody welcome back to this week in startups excited to have Jamie rode on today. |
| 1:39.0 | Jamie recently joined Screen Door. For those who you don't know, Screened Door is a Fund of Funds. |
| 1:44.3 | As you know, if you've listened to his pod before, it's a vehicle in which LPs give a bunch of money |
| 1:50.8 | to a group of partners who then invested in venture funds. |
| 1:55.7 | Why would they do this? Well, they may not have the acumen, the time or the want to go |
| 2:00.9 | evaluate hundreds and hundreds of general partners at venture firms to pick a range of them. |
| 2:08.4 | And so it's sort of like outsourcing to somebody who could do a better job for you. |
| 2:13.0 | Screenedore has a mission to support underrepresented voices in the venture capital space. |
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