Q&A with Accel Founder Arthur Patterson
super{set} companies come together every other week to hear from interesting guest speakers from across tech ecosystem as part of our ongoing Community Call series.
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1. On Starting Accel & The Early Days of Venture Capital
2. On Early Stage Hiring
3. On Time Horizons in Venture Capital
4. On Hiring Executives
5. On Company-Building as an Experiment
6. On the Patterson Cycle
7. On Crypto
8. On Why Tom Wasn’t Fired as CEO of Rapt
9. What are you most proud of? (Audience Question)
10. What is the common thread across big hits and misses? (Audience Question)
11. How do you sort the signal and the noise? (Audience Question)
12. Is it problematic that traditional VC funds are getting so big? (Audience Question)
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Jeremy Klein is a general partner at super{set}. Jeremy helped build super{set} from day one alongside Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya, designing super{set}’s structure, recruiting co-founders, and laying the plans for a scalable buildout. super{set} recently announced the closing of its $90 million Fund II. He sat down with Jon Suarez-Davis (jsd) to provide insights into the strategic timing and vision behind launching Fund II, his professional journey from a legal expert to an integral part of super{set}'s fabric, and how his unique background and approach have been instrumental in building super{set} and recruiting top-tier co-founders.
Why should a tech exec care about profit and loss? Aren’t our jobs to make the product great, and someone else can figure out how to make the numbers add up? That was my attitude for a long time until I finally appreciated the significance of gross margins for SaaS businesses during the early part of my tenure as the CTO of Krux.