Scott (HarbourVest) - Unknown Last Name
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And then you'll look down to the partners and you'll look at their track records and none of them have that company in their portfolio.
portfolios.
So you wonder, do they have good investors?
And the reality is there are periods of time that may be longer than the period of the life of a fund, call it three or four years, where your firm and your people are not going to access those companies that define deals.
There are
almost urban legend examples.
Pick a company like Meta, which was part of Web 2.0 when a lot of investors were investing in Web 1.0.
And those venture funds that were leaning into 1.0 heavily, their track records were poor for two or three funds in a row.
And it had you asking the question, did they lose their touch?
In this particular meta example, we went around the table in our IC and our founder, there were 20 people in the IC at the time, analysts up to founder.
The founder said, I want to go around the table, one person, one vote.
Are we going to do this deal?
It was a majority voted to do the deal.
It was like 55-45, something like that.
And that turned out to be the Facebook fund.
I think the question is the why.
And if you're going to really kind of zero in on what could be the why, it's probably two things.
Their strategy is not where they're investing is not where the market's going.
If they're investing where the market is happening and they're not getting into the deals that matter, then I think it's a red flag.
Other times it's leadership, right?
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