Gili Raanan
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558 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Mar
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And, you know, those are startups.
Those are businesses with business plan, with teams, with clients.
Early on, I thought that it's a good thing for us to show our limited partners that not all, you know, we had an incredible, super high paper value of portfolio.
And I wanted to demonstrate to them that we can actually drive some liquidity to them.
Potentially, but even for that quote-unquote misalignment, you know, it's always easier to look at it over time.
But back in the early days, when I made a mistake and sold with a stock that if I knew where it's going, I would hold on to that.
The reaction...
from my limited partners, and I have still a very sophisticated, smart set of investors, was overwhelmingly positive.
They were cheering for that because for them it's a new GP, and that was a positive event.
I had only one or two super smart LPs.
I remember one guy, you know,
One of them called me and said, hey, I'm not investing here to hedge my risks.
I actually like to take more risks.
And I appreciated that.
And by the way, I still believe it was for cyber starts back then, it was the right decision.
I probably went zero to one, meaning no business, seed investment, no idea to a real business, probably close to 50 times.
That's a lot.
And I hope that if you do that type of journey 50 times, you learn something.
And I think I'm learning every day.
I think that what's the only constant thing
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