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Will Quist

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“Oh man, you're not quite nerdy enough. The red herring was the tech crunch of the 90s, but it was a printed magazine, the go-to media resource for venture, for startups, right? Throughout the 90s, then obviously in the dot-com boom, it became a huge thing. She's like 0, 4, 05. I sat down with the founder of Red Herring. Media brands are transitioning online in a collaborative fashion. He had a really good thesis actually of like kind of what TechCrunch became. And he said, hey, so I'm going to launch something. Why don't you come do it with me for a year? And so I said, that sounds great. I want to find a company eventually. I'll navigate. I'll spend a year with you. But the thing that I got tasked with that resonated the most is he'd promised a top 100 company list back when that was like still a novel thing. And so I ended up being heavily involved with thousands of submissions having to review probably a thousand companies. I met with four or five hundred companies in person over six months. I was this 24-year-old kid with no technical background in his first job in a room with KPMG auto. All these people would kind of sponsored it to get it.”
2022-09-12 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just tell it to you. I don't know how to describe my journey. So I'm actually sixth generation Bay Area. It's sixth generation peninsula growing up around the Stanford campus. I grew up riding my bike down Sandhill Road to go play water polo at Stanford. But there's a sense of growing up like a fish and not knowing what the water is, right? I had very little awareness beyond the IPO market because my dad was an investment banker and was pretty focused on being a water polo player. What's funny is growing up in Woodside and riding down Sandhill Road, my first real taste of startups came when I moved to Berkeley and was just a flexible resource for startups that were getting small grants out of Haas business school competitions. And quickly fell in love with it and swore coming from a family who had only been on the finance side, swore I would never that I was going to be an operator. So I really fell in love with it then, left Berkeley, became a professional water pole player actually. I lived in Hungary for a year. It was wild, man. And I wasn't in Budapest. Like I was out in the beautiful countryside and no one spoke English. That could be a podcast itself. When I came home, it was time to figure out what to do.”
2022-09-12 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A good intro every time I listen or every time I see your tweets, I'm like, honestly, I think Harriet's the only other one who wants to go as deep and study this as much as I end up doing”
2022-09-12 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source