Struggle Led Ho Nam and Altos Ventures to Billions
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Ho Nam and Altos Ventures overcame years of struggle to build a Berkshire Hathaway-style venture capital empire—worth billions.
Struggle Led Ho Nam and Altos Ventures to Billions Pinned January 16, 2025 Struggle Led Ho Nam and Altos Ventures to Billions Over the past two years, I’ve studied countless investors who’ve had outsize success. One firm I studied was Altos Ventures . It popped up on my radar when I read the S-1 for Roblox and learned the firm had an almost 25% ownership stake when the company IPOed at a $35.5 billion valuation (see my post here ). Altos’s stake was worth over $8 billion at IPO, an enormous haul for a single firm. (The Altos ownership stake can be seen on page 172 of the S-1, here . The owners
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