The LP Perspective: Alex Bangash
Jul 07, 2019•1 hr 3 min
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Episode description
Alex Bangash (@AlexBangash), founder of Trusted Insight, joins Erik as part of our LP series.
They talk about:
- The myth, according to Alex, that there are such things as “good pickers” in venture.
- The fact that in venture, the traditional investment model is turned on its head — assets are picking managers, rather than the other way around.
- Why “the structural advantage of the big funds has all but disappeared” and why he cringes when someone tells him they want to be the next Benchmark.
- How he is trying to disrupt the entire venture model by democratizing access to capital.
- Why he’s bullish on the studio model and which kinks still need to be worked out.
- Where the next big thing in VC will come from.
- What he means when he says he’s “trying to bring a tennis racket to a basketball game” when talking about whether star GPs could be thought of as analogous to big NBA free agents.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Grace Chen is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.
They talk about:
- The myth, according to Alex, that there are such things as “good pickers” in venture.
- The fact that in venture, the traditional investment model is turned on its head — assets are picking managers, rather than the other way around.
- Why “the structural advantage of the big funds has all but disappeared” and why he cringes when someone tells him they want to be the next Benchmark.
- How he is trying to disrupt the entire venture model by democratizing access to capital.
- Why he’s bullish on the studio model and which kinks still need to be worked out.
- Where the next big thing in VC will come from.
- What he means when he says he’s “trying to bring a tennis racket to a basketball game” when talking about whether star GPs could be thought of as analogous to big NBA free agents.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Grace Chen is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.
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