Semil Shah GP Haystack Ventures | How One of the Best Seed-Stage Investors Operates as a GP (Figma, HashiCorp, DoorDash, Instacart)

This week's Unlimited Partner is Semil Shah the GP for Haystack Ventures, one of the best performing seed-stage funds around. see: DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, Opendoor, HashiCorp, Carta, People.ai among others. Semil gives great insight into how he is as a leader, investor, parent. He's calm, structured, thoughtful and measured in his responses. 

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Haystack site

Semil's LinkedIn

Semil's Twitter

Topics Include:

-Fear as a motivator

-HashiCorp

-Infrastructure as software

-Time horizons, decision making as a leader

-Family

Semil's song is Jose Gonzalez Heartbeats 

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