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Gus Tai
The Future Of Venture Capital: Trinity Ventures Partner Gus Tai (Part 3)
SM: You are a $300 million fund, but is your structure a standard 2 + 20? GT: We don’t discuss the actual structure of our fund, but it is identical to our historical structure. When we started, [we were] circulating the idea that we would raise Trinity 10 with an identical focus to our other
The Future Of Venture Capital: Trinity Ventures Partner Gus Tai (Part 2)
SM: You are saying the early venture capital industry was performance driven? You could not get a lot of management fee-driven income with $31 million. GT: Yes. The mentality of the people who entered the business in the late 1980s, the early 1990s and when I entered it in 1996 was that you joined the
The Future Of Venture Capital: Trinity Ventures Partner Gus Tai (Part 1)
Gus Tai is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures and joined the firm in 1996. He focuses on consumer-enabling technologies and services and enterprise software. His past investments include Blue Nile, eSurance, Photobucket and Sygate. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard and an MS in engineering and an MBA from MIT. SM:
Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch (Part 1)
The Internet is changing the content business dramatically, and in this story, we will explore the casual gaming industry through the eyes of entrepreneur John Welch, a gaming industry veteran, who hopes to build a brand as high-impact as Electronic Arts in video gaming, through his venture PlayFirst. I met John a long time ago
