Scott (HarbourVest) - Unknown Last Name

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E408: HarbourVest: Why Venture Capital Is Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And what we typically have many of our senior people doing references, but we also train our mid-level people that are also doing references, how to kind of see through that, just understand

the black and white and understand the nuance of the call.

And it might be, is the person referencing another person on their board that you're never talking about?

Or go into the reference knowing who the co-investors are.

You're calling about this firm, but you kind of bring the other investors or firms into the discussion to see what kind of feedback you can get.

That's right.

So that's another tactic.

So when you do a reference with the CEO, you don't tell them exactly who it's on.

It's just on your investors, right?

And that way you don't get a bias around an investor where he knows you're calling about that individual, right?

I don't know if it's I changed my mind recently, but there's two things.

You need to be open-minded to the fact when you're underwriting a venture firm, for example.

A firm, just like markets, goes in cycles and there will be good funds and bad funds.

And it's never kind of a direction of travel that's one way.

It's a direction of travel that's going one way but could go the other way.

So some of the hardest discussions we have is

Instead of just saying this is broken and we're out, it's making sure that we know that it's broken.

And we've seen situations where staying in was actually the best decision we could have made because it was that next fund that turned out to be a great fund.

How do you explain that?

In this power law world that we live in where that's the business model, if you don't have a couple of those companies in your portfolio, your fund isn't going to be good.

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