venture capital but make it make sense
Former engineer. Now a VC trying to figure it out in real time. Writing about cap tables, deal flow, startup reality and why everyone in this industry talks like they swallowed a business school textbook.
the stuff i figured out this month
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engineer turned VC, based in Auckland. i spent years building things and then one day ended up on the other side of the table evaluating things. turns out a lot of VC is just pattern matching dressed up in fancy words.
so i started writing it all down. the stuff nobody told me. the stuff i had to figure out the hard way.
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