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Jeff Horing

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

We feel like one, those get to be much bigger checks that could start at 10% and grow to 20%.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

If we get back to an environment where we could be the lead investor in the next round,

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

And then a lot of the venture buyouts, M&A is a huge part of the strategy.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

So if you look at levers for winning in a venture buyout, you get 30% baked in growth, maybe some operational improvements, and then inorganic growth rates that can consolidate and give you tail outcomes.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

I think the buyouts were willing to take five points lower than everything else.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

Everything else is blended pretty close to the same.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

30% is kind of a gross number that we target.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

We probably miss a little bit more on the

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

early stuff, then the venture buyout market rate's just super high.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

It's a lower risk profile, so it's a market that's been a little bit better and very few competitors.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

And it plays perfectly to our sourcing engine, because how do you find these companies that are selling Salmon software to the Salmon industry?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

That's not an easy source.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

That's people jumping on planes and calling up companies in Norway.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

It's not mainstream.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

They're not showing up at conferences.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

They're not showing up on venture capital lists of

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

hot companies to back or things of that nature.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

Oh, I mean, Wiz we backed when it had zero revenue.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

We loved everything we saw, including the team.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeff Horing - Building Insight Partners - [Invest Like the Best, EP.440]

Monday was an interesting company, but not the most obvious funded company.