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StrictlyVC @StrictlyVC Oct 1, 2020

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StrictlyVC @StrictlyVC Jan 18, 2023

“The good case is just so unbelievably good that you sound like a really crazy person to start talking about it. And the bad case — and I think this is important to say — is, like, lights out for all of us.” youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1…

StrictlyVC @StrictlyVC Jan 9, 2023

“Hunter Walk, a partner at venture firm Homebrew who himself has publicly admitted some of his misses, called anti-portfolios 'performative BS.'” wsj.com/articles/ventu…

www.wsj.com Do You Have a ‘Failure Résumé’? The Latest Profession Broadcasting Its Misses and Flubs Venture-capital firms tout ‘anti-portfolios’ to show a degree of humility; one critic calls it ‘performative BS.’

StrictlyVC @StrictlyVC Dec 4, 2022

In a new interview with the WSJ, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried continues distancing himself from trading firm Alameda Research, even though he owned 90% of it wsj.com/articles/ftx-f…

www.wsj.com FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Can’t Account for Billions Sent to Alameda FTX’s founder said he couldn’t explain what happened to billions of dollars that customers of his failed cryptocurrency exchange sent to the bank accounts of his trading firm.

StrictlyVC @StrictlyVC Oct 7, 2022

Alex Wiltschko, an EIR at GV (Google's venture arm), is setting out to digitize scent. One benefit could be machines that sniff out diseases. Listen to his conversation with StrictlyVC here.

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www.buzzsprout.com GV Smells a New Opportunity in Digitizing Scent - StrictlyVC Download Connie & Alex go over a few of their favorite tech stories this week, and then Connie talks to Alex Wiltschko and Krishna Yeshwant of GV (Alphabet's venture arm) about Wiltschko's plans to digitize...