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How a Top Seed-Stage Venture Capital Firm Picks Startups

Leeor Mushin is a Principal at Floodgate Fund, one of the original pre-seed / seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Floodgate Fund has been an early investor in such iconic companies as Lyft, Twitter, Okta, Twitch, Task Rabbit, and many others. Leeor attended the University of Texas at Austin, and more recently graduated with an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). He previously worked in the energy sector, and also co-founded a digital marketing company. While at Stanford, he co-founded the GSB 2020 Fund, a venture capital fund that invest in startups founded by his classmates, which was the first such fund at the GSB, and which has been repeated by each subsequent class. Since graduating, Leeor been working as a principal at Floodgate Fund, alongside the founding partners, Mike Maples and Ann Miura-Ko. Next Unicorn podcast is also available on 🎙️Spotify, 🍎Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Follow Leeor Mushin: 👥LinkedIn:   / leeormushin   🐦X:   / lmushin   💻Website: https://www.floodgate.com/ Follow Sasha Earnheart-Gold: 👥LinkedIn:   / sashaearnheart-gold   🐦Twitter: https://x.com/EarnheartGold 📸Instagram:   / sashaearnheartgold   📬Subscribe to the Next Unicorn email newsletter on Substack: https://nextunicorn.substack.com 💻Website: https://www.nextunicornpodcast.com/ Video Contents: 0:00 Teaser 1:37 Introduction 2:35 Personal career journey 5:46 Unexpected changes in career path 8:24 Starting the 2020 GSB Fund 12:22 How to start a VC fund for your class 14:57 Floodgate Fund 25:04 Having an open mind vs. a critical filter 27:29 What makes a great venture capitalist? 31:02 How to work best with founders 33:06 Can a VC firm really be hands on? 37:43 Additional lessons on how to be a good VC 39:17 What makes a great startup founder? 41:28 Major pitfalls that startup founders can avoid 43:11 Most challenging parts of being a VC 45:28 What do you wish you had known before starting in VC? 49:35 Should a VC firm have investment theses? 53:13 A pitfall that many VCs fall into 56:03 How should a VC reject founders? 1:00:14 How can a VC firm learn from missed investments? 1:03:29 How important is the pitch / pitch deck? 1:06:31 Critical vs. rose-tinted glasses; what can go right? 1:10:07 What does a super founder look like? 1:11:46 The thunder lizard approach to VC investing 1:14:54 What't the best way to reach out to Leeor? 1:17:42 Lighting Round (Bonus Round) Credits: Video/audio editor and engineer – Oleksii Kyrkach