Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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My LPs were happy.
The strategy was working.
And then I started to get like a little annoyed.
I felt like I was doing most of the legwork and getting this 5% tax.
I wanted to find a way to start getting more ownership in these deals while still being collaborative.
Because I still had no name at this point in Silicon Valley and arguable whether I have much of a name today, but back then, definitely nothing.
What I wanted to figure out is the founders that I wanted to work with wanted those firms on the cap table.
So there was no world in which I was saying, it's me or Andreessen, who are you going to go with?
Because I was going to lose that 10 times out of 10.
But what I started understanding was that I could lead these financings and breed the multi-stage firms in as a co-lead.
And when I led, I still left enough room for a co-lead, but I really started to stress test how far can I push a multi-stage firm down on ownership before they ultimately walk on a deal, but are still happy about it.
And the number I settled on was about 10%.
Pretty much every multi-stage tier one VC firm will do a seed deal at 10% if they have to.
We push them down to six or seven.
It's just not worth it.
They'd rather wait for the series A. So then we started leading financings more consistently.
We ended up leading 14 companies in that first fund.
And the first four deals I ever led, two had raised follow on from Benchmark, one had raised follow on from Sequoia, one had raised follow on from Andreessen.
So I had a very positive feedback loop that the deals that I was leading at seed were not adverse selection.
And that gave me more confidence to continue leading.
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