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🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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First, in a VC Sunday School segment, Jason explains his approach to deal memos (01:42) and what parts of a memo are most important. Then, in a This Week in Climate Startups segment, Molly chats with Alex Wright-Gladstein of Sphere (17:06) about offering climate friendly retirement plan options (21:43), financial incentives and more.
(00:00) A teaser from today’s VCSS
(01:42) VCSS: Deal Memos
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(11:13) Which parts of deal memos do people really read?
(17:06) TWiCS w/Alex Wright-Gladstein of Sphere
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(21:43) What makes it hard to have climate friendly options?
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(32:03) How does everybody get paid?
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0:00.0 | Rule off was like here's what I want and you know, just why does why should Uber exist and I wrote like three paragraphs |
0:06.7 | And I wrote two paragraphs and I was like, I don't want to write this rule off |
0:09.4 | And he's like, well, we're kind of giving you the money to invest us a scout can just maybe at least write it a little bit |
0:15.3 | And I was like, I don't want to do this, you know, it's kind of a deal breaker for me |
0:19.4 | I'm just like an idiot. I am with this like great opportunity to be a scout person |
0:23.1 | He's like, just write anything so it's not empty |
0:26.4 | And I was like, fine. And I wrote because taxi sucked |
0:30.7 | And then I expanded on that but because taxi sucked, three words was the reason I said Uber should exist |
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