David Weisburd

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So let's talk about your food and beverage investments.

You were in the seed round for Olipop.

Tell me about how that came about and how did you go about building your position?

You decided to essentially spin out Barrel Ventures, which is a food and beverage VC from the family office.

Tell me about that decision.

The first check we wrote was in Alipop.

You do something that's quite unusual, despite many GPs talk about it.

You leverage your LPs almost better than anyone that I've talked to.

Talk to me about how you leverage your LPs.