Venture Capital Economics with Public Market Liquidity

On a recent Acquired episode, Multicoin Capital VC Kyle Samani points out why VCs have far greater risk-tolerance to make moonshot bets with tokenized web3 companies than they do with non-tokenized web2 companies: web3 VCs can always sell off the tokens, typically after a vesting period of a year. Where traditional VCs see most of their struggling ... See more

Capital is flowing into crypto. Over $20B in crypto funds have been raised since the start of 2021 per Dove Metrics. Dry powder is abundant, but liquidity is asymmetrically distributed. Most capital is focused on early-stage, private projects. That’s not sustainable. While retail investors have been able to consume the float of historical crypto ve... See more

To drive outsized returns, make concentrated bets. Part of Multicoin’s genius is its willingness to back up its conviction with capital. Many of the firm’s best-performing investments were sized aggressively, contributing to the fund’s outpermance.