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After making the decision to freeze her eggs in 2021, startup founder Cally Myhrum Watts found a gap in her healthcare coverage. Her employer didn’t have any form of benefit for fertility treatment and her health insurance wasn’t covering the expenses she had to face. That left her having to deal with thousands of dollars […]
“Growth, growth, fast growth,” Strey says of what investors were after. “You burn money to grow.” Before its introduction to venture capital, the Plantix team had imagined success as simply making a profitable business. But a modest goal “hasn’t always been that sexy for investors,” who prefer to rapidly build toward a single giant payout, […]
Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the consequences of premature government regulation of AI and […]
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Samir Kaji on the Venture Unlocked podcast about a wide range of topics that we as venture capitalists think about everyday, including: How to build a generational firm — retaining partner talent and finding the complimentary networks and skillsets firms need to succeed over […]