The Twenty Minute Vc: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Jamin Ball is a Partner @ Altimeter Capital where he sits on the board of Airbyte, Clickhouse, dbt Labs, Prisma, Tabular. Jamin has also led investments in Deel, MotherDuck, Personio and Starburst. Prior to Altimeter, Jamin spent 5 years at Redpoint where he led investments in Workato, Monte Carlo, Cityblock Health, Root Insurance. Ed Sim is one of the best seed round investors in venture as the Founder and Managing Partner @ Boldstart, Ed focuses specifically on developer, infra and SaaS at pre-seed and seed round. Over the last decade, Ed has backed some of the best including Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Front and Superhuman. In Today's Episode We Discuss: 1. How to Invest Successfully in 2024: What are the three biggest mistakes growth investors can make in 2024? Why should founders not start a platform company? What were Jamin and Ed's biggest mistakes from the ZIRP era? How does Jamin justify paying an $8BN price for Hopin? What were his lessons? 2. The M&A Markets in 2024: Did Figma kill