Getting Dirty Middle Eastern Money Out of Venture Industry and Intentionally Raising a Small VC Fund with John Vrionis of UnusualVC

Summary: <br> John Vrionis is the founder and managing partner of UnusualVC, a mission-driven seed-stage venture firm and is a venture partner with Lightspeed Ventures (previously a partner). John’s invested in the likes of Affirmed, AppDynamics, Docker, Athos, Citadel and many more.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Listen and Learn:<br> <br> * How John prioritizes diversity and why it leads to better returns<br> * What John would change with VC if he could<br> * Why the venture industry is polluted with dirty<br> * His reasons for being highly skeptical of blockchain<br> * How venture incentive structures mess up the VC space<br> * Why UnusualVC only raised $160M of their subscribed $1B demand<br> * The reason China will outperform the US in startup investing in the future<br> * Why John believes we still are not at 50% saturation of software<br> <br> <br> <br> John’s Main Projects:<br> <a href="https://unusual.vc/">Unusual.VC</a><br> <a href="https://lsvp.com/">Lightspeed Venture Partners</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@jvrionis">John’s Medium blog</a><br> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jvrionis">@jvrionis</a><br> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvrionis/">John’s Linkedin</a><br> Are you an accredited investor? <a href="https://thesyndicate.vc/ts-joinsyndicate">Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.</a><br> John Vrionis is the founder and managing partner of UnusualVC, a mission-driven seed-stage venture firm and is a venture partner with Lightspeed Ventures (previously a partner). John’s invested in the likes of Affirmed, AppDynamics, Docker, Athos, Citadel and many more.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Listen and Learn:<br> <br> * How John prioritizes diversity and why it leads to better returns<br> * What John would change with VC if he could<br> * Why the venture industry is polluted with dirty<br> * His reasons for being highly skeptical of blockchain<br> * How venture incentive structures mess up the VC space<br> * Why UnusualVC only raised $160M of their subscribed $1B demand<br> * The reason China will outperform the US in startup investing in the future<br> * Why John believes we still are not at 50% saturation of software<br> <br> <br> <br> John’s Main Projects:<br> <a href="https://unusual.vc/">Unusual.VC</a><br> <a href="https://lsvp.com/">Lightspeed Venture Partners</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@jvrionis">John’s Medium blog</a><br> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jvrionis">@jvrionis</a><br> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvrionis/">John’s Linkedin</a><br> Are you an accredited investor? <a href="https://thesyndicate.vc/ts-joinsyndicate">Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.</a><br>