Aram Verdian
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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If you think about the speakers they've had on the podcast, it's everyone from like essentially all the companies we talked about and the CTOs of those companies.
The other thing they did recently is off of the podcast, because it's been so successful, they created an incubator, which is attached to the podcast.
It's now a studio, it's in the same building, but companies can come and build
They can benefit from the community that's coming from that podcast because it's engineers.
Essentially, a lot of the products they're backing are usually used by the engineers themselves.
So those entrepreneurs who are thinking about starting a company can now stay in that space for six, 12 weeks, learn from that community, learn all the pinpoints, build their company, and that manager will have the right to win because they created that community to begin with for that founder.
mostly funds.
We don't do a lot of co-invest and there are some LPs that do co-invest incredibly well and fund the funds to do well.
I think we've looked at our track record over the past 25 years, and I think we've done a great job in primary fund investments and that's what our strength is.
By the way, as a firm, that's how we've always operated.
We don't go international.
We don't have, we don't have multiple different strategies.
We do venture and growth equity.
And
We tell our LPs for as long as I've been at the firm, we're not the smartest LP out there.
We have a singular focus, which is why we've done well.
And so most of what we do, long-winded way of saying, is fund investments.
We think we're better at it than doing direct investments.
If we started to do co-investments, I think it's not enough for you to just piggyback off of the GPs, especially in an environment we are in now where there is a lot of adverse selection.
If we are going to see a Series B, Series C deal,
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