Aram Verdian

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E407: Why Venture Capital is Becoming a Winner-Take All Market · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

It wasn't performance, it wasn't compensation, but it was just culture and team.

my takeaway from that and when i spoke with a lot of the first years was like look you can optimize for brand you can optimize for firm for the logos but you have to make sure the team and the culture you have is the one that can compound i'm going to use your word because if it doesn't compound no matter how sexy how great that firm is it's going to be really hard for you to stay there for decades the thing that needs to compound is your team and culture internally you compound that the rest will work oftentimes think a lot about

I totally agree.

If you have that foundation, the external work compounds on that.

If you don't have that foundation, it's just really hard to compound.

So we're big believers at this organizational internal compounding.

We diligence that a lot.

So if we are coming into a fund one and there's a new partnership, that's a big part of what we diligence.

Yeah.

We've done a lot of solo GPs where that's less an issue.

And if we feel like there is a concern or we have enough questions, we would wait till fund two.

It's actually the one thing that's the hardest to diligence.

If you're coming into a fund one and you have a two, three, four GP team, and they haven't had a formal historical time to work together, that is the hardest thing to diligence.

We have GPs who write like tens and hundreds of pages together on values, what they want the firm to be, what their concerns are, their vision.

And if anything, you probably should do that exercise individually and then come together.

And really discussed it honestly and transparently.

And that shouldn't be a one-week process.

That should be multiple months of dating each other to figure out whether you really want to partner together.

So we do spend a lot of time on that process with the GPs if they are coming together for the first time to do Fund One.

My colleagues tell me this all the time.

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