Transcript excerpt from a conversation between Jason M. Lemkin and Harry (uploaded as a YouTube video) discussing the challenges of investing remotely via Zoom since March 2020 and the importance (or difficulty) of meeting founders in person. Jason reflects on his inbound investing strategy across countries and notes uncertainty about how to replace in-person signals since the pandemic.
And it will. And it will impact investment velocity. It will. It makes it harder to invest over Zoom when you won't cut certain corners. Right. But that's why I think that my learning from your story. But I might have it wrong.
Eisenberg at a left, he's a very close friend and an investor in my funds, told me, like, how many of your founders have you met in person?
Yeah.
And he is very, very intent on this. How do you feel about the need to meet in person in this Zoom invested world?
Honestly, Harry, like, I mean, I. I've. I have not figured this out since March 2020. I. What I was very good at with this inbound strategy was getting an inbound thing, and I didn't care where the founder I invested in Estonia, France, what, all these different countries. But when the founders came here from the US I was often the first one they'd meet. Okay. Off the plane.
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