Manager Incentives and Risk Behavior

Origins host Beezer Clarkson,  LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recent conversation with Dan Gray, prolific venture writer and Research Lead at Odin. They discuss various levels of risk tolerance across the ecosystem – including who the data says can stomach more – whether GPs are giving up on founders earlier than they used to, and whether Dan’s recent deep dive into changing LP behaviors matches anecdotal wisdom in the world of venture.

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CHAPTERS:0:00 Welcome to Origins0:44 Questioning Assumptions In Venture3:31 Does Having More Companies In Your Portfolio Increase Your Appetite For Risk?8:41 Nick’s Risk Tolerance

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