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

What are the lessons Pivotal Ventures Investing Director Erin Moore has learned at Pivotal Ventures?

22 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Investing Director Erin Moore shares the key lessons she has internalized while investing at Pivotal Ventures. She emphasizes the importance of being willing to admit when new information warrants revisiting and updating prior assumptions, especially for allocators. Moore highlights that she looks for fund managers who demonstrate a growth mindset—showing openness to learning, evolving their approach, and scaling their platforms. Ultimately, she stresses the value of continuously reassessing decisions and allowing investors to observe how fund managers grow—or fail to—over time.

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So as you've been investing at Pivotal Ventures, what are some of the biggest lessons that you've learned? I think in terms of lessons, I think a willingness to admit maybe when, you know, take in new information and maybe willing to sort of, you know, go back and interrogate assumptions that you've, that you've had, you know, for an allocator, I think that's incredibly important. And, you know, one thing that we look for, I'm trying to suss out from prospective fund managers that we're meeting is, you know, do they have a growth mindset in how they approach and how they think about, you know, the work that they're doing, the business and the fund, the platform that they're hopefully trying to build and scale. Yeah. And so one big part of that, I think a lesson that I've learned is just to be willing to kind of revisit and come back to things and let people show you how they're learning and growing or not as an investor over time.