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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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(0:00) Jason joins Pejman Nozad and Jason Shuman at the Liquidity Summit 2024.
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(23:50) Jason joins Pejman for a fireside chat.
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| 0:00.0 | I actually think this is one of the biggest mistake people when start this business as an engine investor or venture capital do. |
| 0:06.0 | They're not thinking enough about sourcing. |
| 0:08.5 | Founders have a lot of choices. |
| 0:10.3 | How do you make sure you see the best founders before anybody else? |
| 0:14.0 | So we've ramped up our incubation strategy and we're incubating now about a third of our fund. |
| 0:18.0 | So what that does is it enables the sector specialists to take that network and take markets that they like and themes that they want to back. |
| 0:24.8 | They can incubate a company with a founder and an operator that's proven. |
| 0:28.8 | You know, when you do actually specialize and you do focus, the customer is the one that benefits. |
| 0:34.0 | This week in startups is brought to you by Fidelity Private shares. |
| 0:39.0 | Manage your cap table and data room, get faster, more accurate for 09 a valuation and fully automate your next |
| 0:46.2 | financing round visit fidelity private shares dot com mention our podcast and receive 20% off your first year paid subscription. |
| 0:54.6 | Dot Tech domains. |
| 0:56.1 | Don't miss our Jam with JCal contest. |
| 0:58.5 | To apply and get more details go to Jam with JCal. |
| 1:02.1 | tech brought to you by dot tech domains and Oracle |
| 1:06.6 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure |
| 1:12.2 | database application development, and AI needs. |
| 1:15.9 | Save up to 50% on your cloud bill at oracle.com slash twist. |
| 1:20.9 | I met our next speaker because we were both sort of in the orbit of Sequoia Capital. I had been a |
| 1:27.2 | founder and he had sold a rug to one of the partners there. He went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for his funds and |
| 1:38.4 | is one of the most thoughtful hard-working individuals I've met at the seed stage. |
| 1:45.0 | And I judge everybody. Like, I'm very, very harshly. |
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