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Requests For Startups: Hard Tech with Trae Vassallo and Lee Edwards
Village Global Podcast
English - July 16, 2019 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsManagement Business Investing business entrepreneurship entrepreneur startup Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Erik is joined on this episode by Trae Vassallo (@trae) of Defy and Lee Edwards (@terronk) of Root Ventures.
They talk about:
- How their backgrounds and unique experiences have informed their perspectives on investing
- Whether venture capital should go back to funding technical risk
- Their advice for funds and how Trae has seen investing strategies come and go over time
- Why there are big opportunities in areas VCs don’t know much about, like logistics, warehousing, or agriculture
- Why Trae doesn’t differentiate between consumer and enterprise businesses
- Their requests for startups in the space
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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.