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| | Just before the end of the year, Erin Griffith of The New York Times published an article titled "What Is Venture Capital Now Anyway?" It's a provocative look at the state of venture capital and, as these sorts of things are want to do, very quickly started making the round in venture circles as VCs tried to map how they fit into the landscape that Erin describes - a split in how VC firms are operating: some firms are keeping to a smaller, boutique style while a handful are becoming behemoths, almost unrecognizable as venture firms. There's very little in between.
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| | tl;dr: Tired of being the only person on the couch who doesn't understand the jokes in Silicon Valley? We've got you covered. The venture capital industry
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| | Every venture firm reports the "value" of each of its underlying investments. Typically, this is updated quarterly and sent to each of the fund's investors. The idea is that investors will then have a definitive view of the value of the firm's investments. Simple, right? But what is the "value" of a private company? Turns out the answer to that question is not so easy to determine, and, as a result, valuation reporting in venture is a mess.
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| Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends.