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Hussein Kanji

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702 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

So I can focus on the really hard things of like building these companies. If they start tinkering with the stuff that I'm taking for granted, it becomes infinitely harder for me to actually like figure out how to adjust to that and build these companies up or have the founders kind of navigate. So it'd be, hey, stick to a strategy.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

So I can focus on the really hard things of like building these companies. If they start tinkering with the stuff that I'm taking for granted, it becomes infinitely harder for me to actually like figure out how to adjust to that and build these companies up or have the founders kind of navigate. So it'd be, hey, stick to a strategy.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

Boring is good for governments, but that's not the world that we're in, especially in an amplified social media where being a little bit more exciting is more fun and also gets you more credit and more kudos and more attention.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

Boring is good for governments, but that's not the world that we're in, especially in an amplified social media where being a little bit more exciting is more fun and also gets you more credit and more kudos and more attention.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

Boring is good for governments, but that's not the world that we're in, especially in an amplified social media where being a little bit more exciting is more fun and also gets you more credit and more kudos and more attention.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

And I don't think most people realize this. Like, once you get to that kind of size, you end up having to comply with all the SEC stuff. So, you may not be publicly traded, but you're complying and you have all the infrastructure to actually go public at any time that you want because you've had to build that because you've got too many shareholders.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

And I don't think most people realize this. Like, once you get to that kind of size, you end up having to comply with all the SEC stuff. So, you may not be publicly traded, but you're complying and you have all the infrastructure to actually go public at any time that you want because you've had to build that because you've got too many shareholders.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

And I don't think most people realize this. Like, once you get to that kind of size, you end up having to comply with all the SEC stuff. So, you may not be publicly traded, but you're complying and you have all the infrastructure to actually go public at any time that you want because you've had to build that because you've got too many shareholders.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

I don't think so. I think as a seed firm, you build great companies. By the way, if someone offers you like 50x on your first investment, maybe there's actually a reason to take some money off the table. But normally you would have said do that. You get your 50x at the IPO stage or at the very late stages. And the same argument would apply.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

I don't think so. I think as a seed firm, you build great companies. By the way, if someone offers you like 50x on your first investment, maybe there's actually a reason to take some money off the table. But normally you would have said do that. You get your 50x at the IPO stage or at the very late stages. And the same argument would apply.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

I don't think so. I think as a seed firm, you build great companies. By the way, if someone offers you like 50x on your first investment, maybe there's actually a reason to take some money off the table. But normally you would have said do that. You get your 50x at the IPO stage or at the very late stages. And the same argument would apply.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

But if you get that in one year, the same logic applies, right? And you just do it one year. You do it one year in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

But if you get that in one year, the same logic applies, right? And you just do it one year. You do it one year in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

But if you get that in one year, the same logic applies, right? And you just do it one year. You do it one year in.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

It is hard to find people to come into a partner only organization and you require people to be reasonably well trained. You're taking a chance on them, but you expect them to kind of be able to hit the job running. There are some great women who are very capable.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

It is hard to find people to come into a partner only organization and you require people to be reasonably well trained. You're taking a chance on them, but you expect them to kind of be able to hit the job running. There are some great women who are very capable.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

It is hard to find people to come into a partner only organization and you require people to be reasonably well trained. You're taking a chance on them, but you expect them to kind of be able to hit the job running. There are some great women who are very capable.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

It is hard for me to poach them because they're very well taken care of in their existing funds for very good reasons because there's a shortage of them. One of my LPs is a woman sat down with me. She's an individual entrepreneur.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

It is hard for me to poach them because they're very well taken care of in their existing funds for very good reasons because there's a shortage of them. One of my LPs is a woman sat down with me. She's an individual entrepreneur.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

It is hard for me to poach them because they're very well taken care of in their existing funds for very good reasons because there's a shortage of them. One of my LPs is a woman sat down with me. She's an individual entrepreneur.