Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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I did well financially relative to my age doing it, but I didn't like sitting in front of a computer screen for 15 hours a day.
It's a very lonely job, and it's a very stressful job.
People in venture complain that the feedback loops are too long.
I agree the feedback loops and hedge funds are too tight.
I think you can convince yourself you're a good investor or convince yourself you're a bad investor too quickly in hedge funds.
If you look at hedge funds and default, they tend to have a shorter duration of life than a legacy private equity firm or legacy venture capital firm because it's just very hard to outperform in public markets for extended periods of time.
But I was in the Bay Area and I wanted to learn more about tech just because it was my backyard and I kept reading about it.
I started cold emailing VCs, angel investors, founders, just anybody I could read about online.
And Silicon Valley is a nice place.
People are pretty receptive to cold emails.
I got a few meetings with individuals and
I just learned more about tech and I wanted to find a way to immerse myself in the ecosystem.
And I just spent more time with individuals.
I wasn't really getting anywhere.
So I was like, if I want to do this for a living, I can't be one foot in, one foot out.
I need to just immerse myself into this entirely.
So I decided to wind down my hedge fund and focus on that.
And the hedge fund did well.
Everybody produced multiples on their investment.
And then I tried to get a job at one of the big venture capital firms.
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