Sarah Drinkwater

Podcast series: a tale of money, murder, madness, and—of course—genius. 

We’re a philanthropic fund that makes grants and investments to improve humanity’s long-term prospects.

Productizing venture means taking everything that venture capitalists do — from sourcing companies to evaluating companies to adding value to founders — and using software or networks to do it better.

Second, emerging fund managers tend to be made up of a smaller group of GPs or solo capitalists with strong industry insights and personal brand in a specific industry or trend, often when this is still nascent and overlooked by the established players.

Established institutional LPs have backed solo GPs. University endowments and other institutional investors have funded several top managers. In doing so, these LPs seem to have made peace with the model’s structural risks.