Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

How Tiger Global Impacted Tyler's Investment Process #shorts

22 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, Tyler (Speaker B) explains how observing Tiger Global’s practice of arriving at founder meetings with a prepared term sheet and extensive homework reshaped his own investment approach. He contrasts this with the typical power dynamic where investors are unprepared and make on‑the‑spot decisions after a cold pitch. Inspired by Tiger Global’s inversion of that dynamic, Tyler adapted his firm’s DealFlow process to prioritize thorough pre‑meeting research, often allowing meetings to conclude before the scheduled hour because the necessary information has already been covered.

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Who would you say are the people, either investors, founders, or just folks in your life who've had the most profound impact on your investment approach?
I was really impressed hearing stories from folks who met with Tiger Global where they just showed up with a term sheet and had done all the research and were ready to go. And I don't know that we're completely aligned with some of the other elements of Tiger Global strategy, but I love that, right? Because it's so different from this kind of power dynamic of I'm going to sit here having done no preparation. You're going to cold pitch me like everything about the business. I'm going to ask you a bunch of dumb questions that you've answered a million times before, and then I'm just going to make a decision on the spot right there with like no time to research. Like a lot of funds work that way. And I really love the kind of inversion of that, of like showing up, having already done the homework. And it definitely was an inspiration for some of the work we've done on DealFlow where we show up, we have like, you know, sometimes we don't even use the whole hour that we've booked with the founder.