Scott (HarbourVest) - Unknown Last Name
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382 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Scott (HarbourVest) - Unknown Last Name’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was their power law deal.
And they kept re-upping to the company through either new investments or continuation vehicles, moving all of their earned economics into the continuation vehicles.
And I was amazed at what they were doing.
And I'm friends with one of the partner and we were actually going surfing together.
And I told him, you got to take some money off the table.
Your wife is going to kill you.
You need to put some money in the bank.
And his answer was like, look, Scott,
This keeps us aligned.
It keeps us hungry.
I've seen too many venture investors who, when they had that big monetization event, they lose that edge that they had that allowed them to become great.
I thought that was interesting.
And I don't think that that's a universal thing that applies to everyone.
But I thought it was fascinating how this individual knew what motivated him and his partners to generate just phenomenal returns for their LP.
In the end of the day, I think many investors are truly fundamental investors.
And if you're doing true venture capital investing in the entrepreneur and the idea, you just have to assume that the mortality is going to be super, super high.
And that's hard for a fundamental investor to get their head around.
And then further, as a fundamental investor, your valuation is not based on a revenue multiple or an EBITDA multiple.
It's what is the size of the total addressable market going to be and how much market share can I have in that market?
And those are things that not a lot of us are conditioned to do.
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