The Venture Capitalist Who Can't Lose — With Zach Coelius

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Zach Coelius is the managing partner of Coelius Capital. He's participating in an unprecedented moment where venture capitalists like him simply can't lose. There's so much money flooding the private markets that, as he put it, "any idiot with a checkbook looks like a genius right now." Coelius joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why this is happening, where it will lead, and who gets hurt when the party ends. Stay tuned for the third segment where we read his tweets and mostly talk about San Francisco's many challenges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.9	Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
1:00.4	All right, today we're going to talk about a lot of things.
1:03.9	But most importantly, we're going to talk about the red hot market for investors right now.
1:09.2	There is a sense among almost every investor that I speak with today
1:13.3	that they just can't lose. And it tells us a lot about where the market is right now, whether that's
1:19.7	healthy and what we might anticipate down the road as some of the bills come due. Joining us to speak
1:25.4	with us about it today, Zach Collius. Okay, he's one of my favorite
1:29.3	people, period, in the tech world. I want to tell you why. First of all, he's a managing
1:35.7	partner at Collius Capital, which is his own VC firm. But in my discussions with Zach,
1:41.3	I've always found him to be straightforward, honest, and someone
1:45.8	that doesn't pull any punches, which makes him the perfect podcast guest.
1:49.4	Zach, welcome to the show.
1:51.0	Yeah, you told me this was going to be like a normal conversation.
1:54.6	And you said this is going to be like calm.
1:57.6	In the intro, do you say it's calm?
2:00.3	Yeah, the cool-headed nuance conversations. Yeah, I don't know if I'm always so calm. In the intro, did you say it's calm? Yeah, the cool-headed, nuance conversations.
2:03.0	Yeah, I don't know if I'm always so calm, but I'll think, you know, but this is good, though.
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