Nate Williams
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192 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Nate Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They don't need OKRs.
They don't need book clubs.
They don't need exact coaching.
You know what they told me, Samir?
I need you to help me with downstream capital formation, and I need you to be effectively like a part-time CRO for the company.
And so I think over time, through trial and error, most of us VCs kind of get it together.
And then the key, and I'm facing this right now, so hold me accountable.
I can't go into too much detail, but I have a new EIR on my team who's coming from a very large three, $4 billion company.
I think that process of how you can work with somebody to create magic is so special.
That's why I'm not a growth investor.
I want to be there when it actually starts, when the magic starts.
Samir, let me put a point on that real quickly because I think you nailed it.
If everything was consensus, we wouldn't have Roblox, right?
Like, if we're so consensus and it has to be up and to the right, triple, double, within three years, you raise a $50 million seed, you raise a $100 million Series 8, there's nothing wrong with that.
But what I'm saying is one of the fears that I have is if you're heuristic to underwrite the next round is that it happened within 12 or 18 months,
If you look backwards, there's a variety of companies that are very successful publicly traded companies that don't fit that profile.
And so to think about what we do in the craft of venture, you have to be willing to break your own rules.
I'll just get, I won't call out the VC firm, but they were very specific to me that they said, if you bring me a company that's raising a series A and that company was not formed in 2024 or 2025, it's almost always an automatic pass.
And so I asked the question, what happens if they took time to measure thrice, cut once, low burn, et cetera.
We were focusing on clock speed and the best founders can iterate super quickly.
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