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1b vs no money but big network?

1b wins. You have no capital.

I think it gets interesting around: 1 billion vs 500 million. Still put m money on a 1 billion and buying access to a network for less than 100 million.



Could be.

I do wonder what the professional relationships type situation is with the network.

I suspect someone at Sequoia can call some buddy at another place if he has a question and get some good information "No man that dude is bonkers / reckless." that might save them a lot of time. Same goes the other way.

Not sure how much good info I get calling up Sequoia "Hey man I got a $1b ... what do you know about...."


Well, you'd put $10M of the $1 billion into Sequoia and then ask "what do you know about"...


I think they might be a bit more picky about my 10 mil to start and less than forthcoming.


> 1b wins. You have no capital.

If you have a good network you can raise capital. It all you have is capital you can't buy a network.


Getting returns when you're investing 500M is easier than when you're investing 1B. Just ask Softbank how they big-check strategy is working for them.

Note: I run a 50M AUM VC.




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