E984: Vice Ventures Founding Partner Catharine Dockery raised $25M to invest in vices: marijuana, sextech, gambling, alcohol, vaping; shares insights on hacking her way into VC through cold emails & a

0:47 Jason intros Catharine Dockery

4:29 How Catharine came up with Vice Ventures

7:00 What was the response when Catharine began raising her first fund?

7:19 What does harm-reduction mean for Vice Ventures?

9:21 Getting Marc Andreessen to invest in her fund

13:32 Strangest emails Catharine has received since starting Vice Ventures

16:01 Investing in cannabis

20:15 Investing in psychedelics

26:33 Investing in gambling

31:16 Who are Catharine's typical LPs?

32:15 Investing in alcohol

39:33 Investing in sextech

44:06 Vice Ventures strong thesis against harming others

47:22 Is Vice Ventures hiring?