Why We Hired Michele Spitzer, our New Head of Portfolio & Platform
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It is no secret that all VCs sell variations of the same product: capital. At Asymmetric, we work relentlessly to be helpful capital. There are two reasons for this. For one, we are a new fund. We have deep empathy for early stage founders as a startup ourselves and, to be candid, with no pre-existing track record to fall back on, our success is uniquely tied to that of every single investment we make. Secondly, none of us have ever been venture investors before. We all come from founding/operating and private equity backgrounds, where we worked side by side with our management teams. So we’ve built a service model that leans into our strengths as ex-operators who prefer to roll up our sleeves to work alongside our founders whenever they ask for help. It may not be the easiest or most common approach, but it’s what we like to do and are good at. And it’s something we are choosing to double-down on with the hire of
Why We Hired Michele Spitzer, our New Head of Portfolio & Platform
Why We Hired Michele Spitzer, our New Head of…
Why We Hired Michele Spitzer, our New Head of Portfolio & Platform
It is no secret that all VCs sell variations of the same product: capital. At Asymmetric, we work relentlessly to be helpful capital. There are two reasons for this. For one, we are a new fund. We have deep empathy for early stage founders as a startup ourselves and, to be candid, with no pre-existing track record to fall back on, our success is uniquely tied to that of every single investment we make. Secondly, none of us have ever been venture investors before. We all come from founding/operating and private equity backgrounds, where we worked side by side with our management teams. So we’ve built a service model that leans into our strengths as ex-operators who prefer to roll up our sleeves to work alongside our founders whenever they ask for help. It may not be the easiest or most common approach, but it’s what we like to do and are good at. And it’s something we are choosing to double-down on with the hire of