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Alex Rampell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
977 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

And the answer is you'd rather get a 3x on a billion than a 5x on 5 million.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Or one of my good friends is this guy, Mickey Malka at Ribbit.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

I was lucky to be an investor in his fund one personally.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

And it's like, that was like a 55x fund on, I think it was like an $85 million fund, but 55x, like that's insane.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

But, you know, at some point you can ask Mickey this too.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It's like, you're better off with like a 5x on like a very, very large fund.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Like the harder thing to do is to just return gross dollars, period.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

Like that's what LPs actually want.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It's amazing to get a hundred.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

I've had two funds that I've invested in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

One is Mickey.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

This other one is this fund called AngelPad, which was kind of like a third rate competitor.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

I don't want to call it third rate, but it was like, it was not, you know, there was Y Combinator and then it's like, there was AngelPad.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

It was just like this small little experiment.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

That was 120X.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

I got 120 times the capital that I get.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

DPI.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

How big was the fund?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

I think it was $8 million.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

But this is the thing.