Aram Verdian
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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Be more open-minded.
The industry we're in is changing a lot.
It's changed far faster than I expected.
And I talked about how everything is confusing.
It's because if we took a very formulaic, dogmatic approach to venture, it wouldn't be confusing.
We would just say- Just be wrong.
We would probably be wrong, exactly.
We would just say like, this is how we invest and we're going to keep investing like that.
But the market moves away from you.
And so one thing, and I've become less and less dogmatic and less and less formulaic over time.
Being formulaic is important for that 70-30 we talked about, for the 70%, because it does lead to actual consistent returns.
But you have to put in the context of the market and where we are in venture.
And I'm saying it's confusing is because I'm being more open-minded today than I was when I was graduating from Stanford.
Because I'm confused more about the venture market, we are able to do new opportunities in those three pockets, big firms, challengers, small firms.
We're not saying, this is where we play, this is where we have made money from 2000 to 2010, so we're going to keep doing that.
To your point, we're going to lose money if we do that.
So being more open-minded.
It's a paradox of knowledge.
The other thing is we have an incredible culture at the firm where
No one person has the answer.
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