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

It's probably 15 years ago, I kind of broke down the venture model and I called venture capitals two types of characters.

There was the right brain and the left brain investor.

The right brain investor, who I characterize as someone like a Vinod Khosla, is a futurist, right?

They can see into the future.

They see a market that doesn't yet exist.

And then they find an amazing entrepreneur that's going to go own that market.

The left brain investor is more like a Mary Meeker, right?

You're using fundamental...

investment criteria to inform yourself on which investments you should be investing into.

In venture capital, it's, okay, I can look at revenue growth.

I can look at other metrics that define scale that are unique or similar to deals that I've done in the past that have turned out to be great deals.

But those are two different DNAs that are tapping into the same sandbox of venture companies at different stages, right?

And is it only the Vinod type of investor that's able to capture these power laws?

I call it the futurist, the person that can just see something that no one else can see.

And there's a lot of great futurists out there that exist, but if you kind of do a personality profile on them, they're different than the ones that are kind of doing the late stage pre-IPO type investing, right?

If you did have the capital at the time, would you have invested?

Any great idea with a great founder and venture capital is going to be perceived as overpriced.

If you go in any underpriced, you're not going to win the deal.

And then you win when that company exceeds all of your greatest expectations.

So in hindsight,

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