Why I started Earthling VC: Winning in the augmentative era

It’s a historically awful time to raise a new venture fund— I decided to do it anyway.

It’s a historically awful time to raise a new venture fund— I decided to do it anyway. Why? I felt the window of opportunity for me and our thesis was now and, possibly in a contrarian manner, building a fund during a depressed venture market could be the best time to start building in the grand scheme of things— some of the best fund vintages occurred in the aftermath of market crashes. Nonetheless, it’s the era of the “cockroach” emerging manager: Those able to scrap their Fund I’s and II’s together in this environment, and survive long enough, will lay the successful early foundations of…

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