Relationship Advice of the Investor Sort with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter | E2008
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Todays show:
Meghan Reynolds takes the stage at Liquidity Summit 2024 to discuss the intricacies of raising capital and pitching to VCs. Meghan dives into many topics including the importance of relationships (3:07), fund size rationalization (20:36), market sentiment (25:55), and other crucial aspects of successful fundraising!
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(0:00) Meghan Reynolds takes the stage at Liquidity Summit 2024
(3:07) Meghan Reynolds’ talk “Relationship Advice: Of the LP / GP Sort”
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(15:07) The complexity factor in raising capital
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(20:36) Rationalizing fund size, securing re-ups, and worst pitching practices
(25:55) Market sentiment and single deal SPV dynamics
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(31:02) VC allocations, private credit, and market dynamics
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| 0:00.0 | there's going to be a lot of really disappointed hands out there and so you have to show |
| 0:04.4 | that you're really differentiated. You can access basically any VC fund today. |
| 0:08.6 | I hate to say it but everybody's open and so you really have to be sharp about why you deserve to be at the table and |
| 0:15.7 | that comes from these five components. You can't over raise because LPs truly |
| 0:20.8 | understand and they'll evaluate your deals, your deal size, the markets, they're highly |
| 0:24.4 | intelligent. You gotta be rational about your fun size. |
| 0:27.4 | Worst things to do in a pitch. And I'm gonna laugh because Jason just did it on stage is don't refer to deals as bets. |
| 0:34.4 | Don't worry, this is the hardest time to raise capital. |
| 0:36.7 | In 25 years that I've been doing this, |
| 0:39.3 | it is the hardest time for everyone, stop always be closing right |
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| 1:29.9 | All right one of my besties brat gershner some people refer to him as the fifth bestie on the Allen pod and he's got a great new podcast, |
| 1:35.6 | B. G2. Introduce me to this brilliant force of nature, Megan Reynolds, and we went to the UAE and we went and visited some amazing places and she looked at everything I was doing and I said I don't know how to manage LPs and she said but you've been doing this for 10 years I was like yeah I just tweet I'm raising a fund and you know, we just raise a fund, but then all of a sudden the world imploded and I lost my might as touch the ability to just tell somebody I'm raising a fund and they would just hand me money and I have to actually like explain the strategy and all this |
| 2:03.3 | crazy stuff and then she's mentored me and so I got a new bestie and you know I asked |
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