Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Hosted by Samir Kaji · Samir Kaji
4.9from 140 ratings
- 162
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 140
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com (https://ventureunlocked.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Samir Kaji
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 9 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 162 episodes have a transcript.
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wins Above Replacement: The New Way to Judge Founders
11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
From the early days of Facebook and learning from Zuck to building a $2B+ VC franchise w/South Park Commons
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Has venture capital lost the plot?
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Wins Above Replacement: The New Way to Judge Founders
Published 9 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Right. Because in the early stages, when we where we invest in the Cedar Series A, you're dealing with imperfect information. Right. By the time you get to Series D or C or E, honestly, any private equity trained guy or Goldman Sachs trained guy. guy or girl can run that analysis. But in the early stages, you're looking at an incomplete puzzle with only a few puzzle pieces and you're kind of trying to go, can I see this coming together and forming a great puzzle or a masterpiece, right? And so That to me is the key. People say he's a great founder. And I go, well, what do you mean? And so what we say is we want founders that have really high wins above replacement. […]
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