Sramana Mitra: Would you write the term sheet? Would you lead? Jon Staenberg: I used to a lot. At this point, I am not. To help in a situation, I would rather see a focused institutional firm. For me, pricing is not the signal that I want to give to the market. I would like
Sramana Mitra: What are those areas of personal interest to you currently? Jon Staenberg: Gaming is one of these massive categories. If you are not in it or if you are not a participant, then you don’t know how large and exciting it is. My generation doesn’t get that this is changing the world in so
Sramana Mitra: What is your current strategy going forward? Humanity has never changed in such space as you pointed out earlier. As we are seeing everywhere in all dimensions of life, this has been a real change enforcer. How do you parse that and what is your investment thesis going forward? What are you looking
Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners, discusses the trends he is seeing and the investment thesis he is following. Sramana Mitra: How have you been? How has COVID been? Has everything been okay? Jon Staenberg: I was just talking about that this morning. I feel very lucky. I traveled a lot during COVID.
Jon Staenberg, Managing Partner at Staenberg Venture Partners, discusses the trends he is seeing and investment thesis he is following.
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Sramana Mitra: People are scrambling. There are a lot of people in the industry who are also scrambling to put in little bits of money. By the time you get to raising Series A, you’ve raised six rounds of financing already. Jon Staenberg: I love to refer to the millennial problem. Pivoting, sometimes, is a
Sramana Mitra: You said earlier that you’re interested in Bitcoin. Can you talk a bit more about how you’re analyzing the Bitcoin situation? Bitcoin is not a capital-efficient area to invest in. It’s going to be expensive more often than not. How are you parsing the Bitcoin opportunity? Jon Staenberg: Let me step back for