What Do VCs Do All Day? 5 Visible Activities And The 1 Mostly Invisible One

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Remember the widely circulated series of memes “What people think I do” a few years back? Well, one of the VC versions is posted above and humorously captures the mismatch of perceptions. The truth is how VCs spend their day varies much based on personality and seniority but by and large, it is on 5 very visible activities — and 1 that is often invisible. 1) Portfolio Portfolio are the companies a VC has already bet on and is naturally the place where he/she will spend a substantial if not the majority of their time. Investments could vary in amount…...

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Amit Garg I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.