3 ms·
"No one, VC or angel, has invested in more of the top startups than Ron Conway. He knows what happened in every deal in the Valley, half the time because he arr
by max_ 6y ago
"No one, VC or angel, has invested in more of the top startups than Ron Conway. He knows what happened in every deal in the Valley, half the time because he arranged it.
And yet he's a super nice guy. In fact, nice is not the word. Ronco is good. I know of zero instances in which he has behaved badly. It's hard even to imagine."
— Related PG article[0]
[O]: http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html
- gnicholas 6y agoMy understanding is that he invests very very broadly (some have termed it 'spray and pray'), so it would be unsurprising to learn that he has invested in more of the top startups than anyone else. I'm not saying that isn't a good strategy, or that he hasn't used a more refined approach in reality — just that someone who invests so broadly would mathematically be expected to have the broadest exposure to winning (and losing) startups.