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

What is Screendoor Partners Principal Wes Panek most looking forward to this year as an investor?

12 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In a brief interview, Screendoor Partners Principal Wes Panek answers the question of what he is most looking forward to this year, covering both professional and personal aspects. Professionally, he expresses excitement about Screen Door’s next growth phase: the recent hiring of Lisa Colley as Managing Director, her institutional LP experience, and the firm’s plans to scale by raising additional capital, continuing deployments, and expanding programming for emerging general partners (GPs). He characterizes the first version of the firm as established and now ready to accelerate. Personally, he notes that he is entering his mid‑30s, hinting at a desire for new challenges or adrenaline. The tone is conversational and optimistic, with a focus on strategic expansion and personal reflection.

What are you looking forward to most this year? And this can be like you personally or as an investor as well.
Yeah, I'll speak to both a little. I think professionally, I'm super excited and bullish on where we are at Screen Door. Earlier this week, we announced that we brought on our second full-time hire, Lisa Colley. She's our new managing director. So we're expanding our team. She brings like the institutional lens of being an institutional LP for years. And we are really thinking about scale in this next phase. So we're thinking about going out, raising more capital. We'll be continuing to deploy, expanding and building on some of that programming for emerging GPs we talked about. So I'm just excited to, I feel like V1 is sort of in place and now we're off to the races in a good way.
I think personally, I'm like, I'm like entering my mid-30s.
I'm feeling age in like a way I know, like I haven't or something. And so I like, well, I was, I am like seeking adrenaline.