My Goal is to NEVER be on the VC Midas List

The best podcasts are conversations which take you places you weren’t necessarily planning to go. My chat recently with Molly O’Shea of Sourcery ( great newsletter, you should subscribe) covered more than I was expecting!

This short clip is pretty self explanatory. I’ll never be on the Forbes Midas List (one of the annual ‘rankings’ of venture capital performance). Why?

1. Satya and I have always believed that it’s not consistent with our firm’s culture to do deal attribution (who gets credit for what), or to submit private company data from our portfolio to a 3rd party outside of what we share with our firm’s investors.
2. We’re no longer eligible since we are primarily using our own capital. But the snippet above has a brief, funny story about how we learned we were now disqualified.

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Originally published at https://hunterwalk.com on October 19, 2024.