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David Weisburd

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How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

What is one piece of advice you could go back to 2006 when you had just graduated Princeton?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

One timeless piece of advice that would have either helped you accelerate your career, helped you avoid costly mistakes.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

And I've only worked for three months in my life for somebody else.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

I worked at Jefferies for a summer.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

So I'm similar to very entrepreneurial.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

And when I think about these meta engineers and these Google engineers, are they the same level of talent at the high end as the top founders?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

And they just have a different...

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

risk appetite?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

Or are founders just a different class of engineers, designers, etc.?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

But in terms of... Do they care too much about being liked?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

You wish you would have went to meta or Google earlier.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

you never know how that plays out.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

You could have been a lifer there.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

And I also, I started my career as entrepreneur and it's embarrassing how ignorant I was at the time, but yet I developed the skillset of being an entrepreneur in an unknown environment that if I had to pick, I'd go with that skillset versus the hard skillset.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

Camille, this has been an absolute masterclass.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

Thanks so much for jumping on the podcast.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

Thanks for having me.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

That's it for today's episode of How I Invest.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

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How I Invest with David Weisburd
E309: Why Most VCs Firms will Die by 2030

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