Nate Williams
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first heard Jun 2026
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There's nothing wrong with that, but there are plenty of anti-portfolio cases where that company that was light on capital, I'm thinking of a company like Viva in the emergence portfolio.
I think they went public with like $7 million of venture capital raise.
I would love a company like that.
So it shouldn't be Samir.
You mentioned the great food at the beyond summit.
It shouldn't be just because there's a buffet and you can have unlimited food.
I don't need 4,000 calories for breakfast.
Like I should be smart enough to know, like I eat enough food and then I go take my meetings.
Yeah, I mean, I think similar to I was knocking Hollywood for a second, but I would actually derive a couple of learnings from Hollywood, which is the best people in Hollywood think of the George Lucas's of the world and the Clive Davis.
They always reinvent themselves.
And so I think, Samir, you have to constantly be thinking about what your value proposition, either as a solo GP or as a firm, is to these founders.
And so what I end up thinking on this is like part of the job that I do at Union is effectively reading signals from Series A and Series B investors, right?
That could be folks who sit at Google Ventures.
It could be people at Lux like Peter or Josh Wolf.
It could be Leo at Eclipse.
I need to understand how they're thinking about the world.
And I also need to have kind of the human Rolodex, which I do have, of the types of opportunities I think fits their taste.
Because this is still a taste business, right?
There's not an AI that's basically selecting Series A investments for these companies.
And so what I've learned over the past eight years being a full-time investor through my EIR at Kleiner Perkins is...
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