Joshua Wang
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528 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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They're gonna look at things that are truly, they think it's truly transformative, game-changing.
changing.
It's just that they're they're doing it within their own studio, I guess, you know, as opposed to funding an outside company, which is what it used to be.
And so there's actually more competition for early stage capital.
And then you have these economic macro factors which m which cause people to be worried about who to invest in.
So, you know, again, but let's say you're a V C funder, yeah, you do invest in companies, but just being very um a little bit just being very direct here, they have a risk profile, right?
They need to have a return to their LPs.
Are they gonna invest and take a risk in the founder company?
Or are they going to take a risk on this V C
Already not already VC backed venture created company that has a source of capital if things go wrong and they maybe dropped in their three-time exit CEO to lead this.
So that's the stakes that us uh early stage companies are facing to, you know, that that's a new competition and the new normal that we have to fight with.
And very interestingly, also around the time we talked, you know, there there have been new initiatives by certain funds.
That are like, look, we only invest in founder led companies.
There were initiatives of which I know you've been part of.
You know, you've heard of Nucleate, in the US, it's even it's even a chapter in Singapore.
No.
And they're doing they try to it's actually supported by certain new VC funds also that actually really want to focus on the founder because they know that, you know, you have to s there's always gonna be some people with that founder DNA who want to start companies and move things and it's
And
Not pity money, but it's just recognizing that these you know brave individuals deserve to be backed if they truly do have a compelling story.
Yeah.
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