Opinion

October 6, 2020

VCs, stop chasing unicorns and start creating serial founders

VC firms should stop focusing on the next unicorn, and focus instead on nurturing serial founders.


The goal of a VC fund is to discover startups that can grow very quickly. Given the high failure rate among startups, it is these outliers — the businesses that can scale and produce a tremendously large return on investment — that make LPs willing to take the risk to invest in VCs in the first place.

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