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

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

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Once I told my manager at Patreon that if he hired for the role I found myself doing, I wouldn't even get an interview." His response: "Yep!" Adam Fishman followed with: "that's the beauty of joining a startup." The conventional path tells us: Get qualified → Apply for role → Do work.Every experienced PM I know: Do work → Become qualified → Leverag... See more