VC Expert Interview - Typical Day in VC
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Uzma answers, what does a typical day in VC look like?
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I think an average day as a VC, it tends to be very different depending on where you are in your career. So if you're an analyst analyst or an associate, you're probably spending a lot of time meeting businesses, going to networking events, you know, trying to put together drafts or pieces of IC paper, doing a bit of analysis and market research for areas that are investments that we'd be looking to make. If you are a sort of mid-level VC sort of in mid-career, then it's more around leading on investment committee, investment committee proposals, bringing in and winning new deals. So you are the relationship builder and your relationship maintainer for the entrepreneurs exploring new areas that the firm might invest in, some building thesis around that, potentially maybe like observing boards. And then as you are then on the top of the career, then it's sort of building portfolios, winning new deals, setting new strategic areas of investment interest, taking board seats, helping companies, portfolio companies raise, helping portfolio companies troubleshoot some of the stuff so you're then actually focused more on extracting and creating value from the portfolio companies that you've built and potentially driving through exits. And so to a, a day to day just looks very different. I would say that my typical day could have been anything from like actually doing an investment committee in the morning and then, you know, sort of looking through cap tables and financial analysis in the afternoon, sitting through a pitch meeting late afternoon and then, you know, going and doing a panel out in front of people in the evening. So I enjoy that, but for some people I can imagine that can be a bit much when you're sort of got so many different hats on that you're trying to sort of switch between.