{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Founder Collective's Eric Paley on Empathy and Execution in Venture Capital","description":" 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 &quot;founder stage&quot; venture capital fund that focuses on providing the first professional round of capital to \u201centrepreneurs with compelling business concepts\u201d. Eric himself also founded several companies before becoming a VC.&amp;nbsp; Founder Collective's investments include:&amp;nbsp; Coupang, Cruise, Kaggle, Pill Pak, The Trade Desk, Uber and Venmo.&amp;nbsp;  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:  \u00b7&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; * Why the unique name &quot;Collective&quot;  \u00b7&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; * Fuzzy VC math  \u00b7&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; *  VC 'revisionist history&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  \u00b7&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; *&amp;nbsp;  What's next for Founder Collective  Please subscribe to Something Ventured!  Eric Paley on X (Twitter)&amp;nbsp;  Founder Collective  Something Ventured  8-Bit Capital ","author_name":"Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/somethingventured.us","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/32152542\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/174588347"}