Q&A with Accel Founder Arthur Patterson
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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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