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David Weisburd

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How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

That's where AlphaSense comes in.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

AlphaSense is redefining channel research.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

Instead of static point-in-time reports, AlphaSense channel checks delivers a continuously refreshed view of demand, pricing, and competitive dynamics powered by interviews with real operators, suppliers, distributors, and channel partners across the value chain.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

Thousands of consistent channel conversations every month deliver clean, comparable signals, helping investors spot inflection points weeks before they show up in earnings or consensus estimates.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

The best part?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

These proprietary channel checks integrate directly into AlphaSense's research platform, trusted by 75% of the world's top hedge funds, with access to over 500 million premium sources, from company filings and brokerage research to news, trade journals, and more than 240,000 expert call transcripts.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

That context turns raw signal into conviction.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

The first to see wins, the rest follow.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

Check it out for yourself at alpha-sense.com slash how I invest.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

It's like these unteachable lessons.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

Everybody...

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

on an academic basis understands this one in 10 phenomenon when they go into venture capital, but they fail to really internalize both the one and the 10.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

One of the most common things that venture capitalists say over and over again is, I fail to realize how important those power law outcomes are, like how singularly important they are.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

I interviewed Apoorva Mehta, who's a fund-to-fund guy, and he had over 500 investments.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

And I believe 5% of them, 25 of them,

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

it returned 77% of the fund.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

And I think a couple of handful of them returned 50%.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

So like a small handful of companies out of 500 returned 50, 25 returned 77%, which is another way of saying that 475 returned 23%.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

Sex will likely be a trillion dollar outcome.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital

Anthropic hopefully will be somewhere close.