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It’s a great time for institutions to support early stage emerging managers , diversifying away from the mega funds could massively improve the diversity of ideas that are being funded. Some of these older fund strategies are dated, biased and prone to boom bust cycles

Del Johnson Meghan Reynolds Brad Gerstner The All-In Podcast @jason Breaking this narrative is crucial for newer funds, for diverse founders and diverse ideas to get funding ! without testing new ideas and strategies in VC, it will remain a puesdo science based industry attracting charlatans and con-artists.

The Wall Street Journal needs better VC sources, this story lacks depth. This rescue did favor the legacy managers a lot more than the emerging managers. The alternative could have reset the board, is that an acceptable amount of pain/ or a good tradeoff ? may be the right question to ask

For the sake of humanity hope asking the right questions requires a touch more intelligence than answering them! It doesn’t matter if the work involves physical labor, at the current pace of AI development, we are all destined to be replaced sooner than we think #GPT4

Is this a normal experience for emerging GPs? is it just me or does some of the practices described and celebrated here just feel wrong? What is the case for emerging VCs if they are just poor imitations of the establishment?

Feel it’s just the beginning, the current state of industry is reminiscent of a pre-regulation oil industry & with the current direction the best outcome is cartelized oligopolies controlling which ideas get funded and who wins, not the best ones! nytimes.com/2023/04/15/bus…

The main reason the VC industry has a diversity problem is because of the lack of leadership and imagination from the institutional LPs, and opaque decision making processes that are built into every level of this industry, but wait that’s not in this report. Instead it Feels

Shruti Gandhi / Array VC leads preseed rounds It’s not the place it’s the mindset that matters, founders can build anywhere

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Zécca Bryce Roberts The issue stems from "redlining in VC" where institutional LPs impose arbitrary and unscientific barriers, like insisting on a 100M fund size before considering investments. These hurdles hinder access to best performing funds and kills new ideas.

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Lizelle van Vuuren (inactive) Yeah, to be fair the money in VC has always found comfort in a herd. The redundancy isn’t just with startups ideas/processes/GTM etc.. a vast majority of VC firms and their strategies are indistinguishable from each other.