Fundraising and The State of Seed Investing with Semil Shah

Semil Shah (@semil), investor at Haystack and venture partner at Lightspeed, joins Lucas Bagno to discuss:

- The trends Semil sees in the entrepreneurial landscape today: the ease of getting started as a founder, the fight for ownership among funds, and renewed attention to dilution from founders.

- How he raised his most recent fund at Haystack and how he determined what size of fund to raise.

- The lessons he’s learned about deploying funds.

- What the downturn means for fund managers.

- The state of seed investing.

- The impact of the changes to YC’s standard offer.

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