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 Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner at Founder Collective. They discuss the EQ and self-awareness required to switch from operator to investor, how to separate signal from noise in venture cycles, and how the speed of iteration is now such that a window of one or two days can change the entire calculus of an investment.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 Welcome to Origins

0:34 How Involved Should Operators Be With Their CEOs?

2:16 VCs and Trends Are Seven Years Too Late

3:19 Repeat Portfolio Companies: Courageous Or Insane?

5:42 How Do VCs Handle the Speed of Iteration?