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Kyle Harrison

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first: 2022-10-21
most recent: 2022-10-21
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“I was so used to a job being a very different thing. Eventually I ended up selling that business and I was trying to figure out what to do next. I was talking to a friend and they said, well, what did you like most about running your company? And I said, I love being this resource for these passionate people who were running their own businesses. And I love that they could rely on me and I could go help knock down walls for them or find answers for them or whatever. And my friend said, well, that's sort of what venture capitalists do. And I said, well, I don't know what those words mean when placed together. And I sort of stumbled backwards into the world of venture. I'd been running my company in Utah, worked for a seed fund called Kickstart in Utah, and that was kind of my education in venture. But that's what led me out to the Bay Area. Eventually, I wanted to see more than just seed investing. I wanted to see lots of different companies. And so jumped to the Bay Area and worked at firms like TCV and Cotu and Index and eventually contraries where I decided to hang them hat and be able to put my fingerprints on something and actually help build something.”
2022-10-21 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years, The Death of "So So" Venture Firms is Coming, The Rise of Blackstone of Venture Firms and What That Does To Venture Returns, How the World of LPs is Broken and more with Kyle Harrison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My journey is very circuitous. I didn't know anything about venture startups growing up. I was obsessed with film. And so when I got to school, my original major was actually filmmaking. My magnum opus that I created, you can still find on YouTube was Pokemon Love Song. So I was very into film and videos and I was paying for college doing wedding videos and commercials and things like that. So that focus on film was a big part of my life. And then eventually got to the point where I had too many clients. And so I just started farming them out to other creatives. I'd take two percent on whatever they would make. before I knew it i realized i was much better at getting jobs than i was at making videos and so i kind of transitioned to that as a full-time job and i joke that i was running a creator marketplace long before it was cool but i built this really crappy website i expanded to graphic designers and photographers and i was helping them get jobs and do all these different things so that was my first exposure i didn't even know to call that a startup you can ask my wife for the entire time i ran it basically i called it a project i was just working on a project because”
2022-10-21 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years, The Death of "So So" Venture Firms is Coming, The Rise of Blackstone of Venture Firms and What That Does To Venture Returns, How the World of LPs is Broken and more with Kyle Harrison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source