Confessions of an Investment Banker Turned VC | MHV | Monk's Hill Ventures

started talking to a few people from VC firms like Columbia Capital, Updata Partners and Anthos Capital. It then dawned on me that these people truly enjoyed their jobs. I realized a large part of their day-to-day activities involved connecting with people on a personal level. In a lot of finance jobs, you don’t get that as much, and that’s how I r

I also knew I wanted to get exposure to a lot of different industries so instead of doing a startup and diving into one specific vertical, I wanted a more generalist feel. That’s ultimately what led me to VC: the fact that I’d really be able to touch a bunch of different industries and really see innovation throughout all the different ecosystems.

From the perspective of an operations guy, there is a lot of riff-raff in venture capital: posers, herd mentality, technology infatuation, too much education, not enough experience to appreciate what grit and focus it takes to grow a business out of nothing. To have a fighting chance, you want to be with the best firms, and the best partners in tho