How many deals per year does Lemkin prefer to do?

Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Investment My Quirky Approach

11 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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Jason M. Lemkin describes his personal, "quirky" investing approach: he prefers to do about three-to-four late-seed, founder-led deals per year where he can help founders figure out sales and where the founders specifically want his involvement. He notes he does not enjoy other investment styles.

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Three to four (ideally) late-seed deals per year.

And if that's you, then you should go figure out how to do the next Tiger or Insight, but make it work better. Right? And so you got to if you really want to be serious about investing, you got to find the match for you. And for me, it's quirky. It's doing three to four ideally, latish seed deals a year where it's founder led and they're trying to figure out sales and they want me. And it's pretty quirky. But anything else I've done, I have not enjoyed.