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Founder Collective's Eric Paley on Empathy and Execution in Venture Capital
Eric Paley is a General Partner at Founder Collective, one of the great seed-stage venture capital brands - and one of the relatively few venture firms led by startup founders. As the name suggests, Founder Collective is a "founder stage" venture capital fund that focuses on providing the first professional round of capital to “entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts”. Eric himself also founded several companies before becoming a VC.  Founder Collective's investments include:  Coupang, Cruise, Kaggle, Pill Pak, The Trade Desk, Uber and Venmo.  In this episode we discuss the importance of Founder-led VC firms, and the evolution of seed VC firms - which barely existed when he started, and now number in the hundreds.We also discuss: ·      * Why the unique name "Collective" ·      * Fuzzy VC math ·      * VC 'revisionist history"      ·      *  What's next for Founder Collective Please subscribe to Something Ventured! Eric Paley on X (Twitter)  Founder Collective Something Ventured 8-Bit Capital
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