"You don't have enough dopamine in your pitch!" | El Pack w/ Asher Siddiqui

Episode notes

“How you modulate a good story is by inserting dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins at the right times to be able to deliver that story so that the person listening to that story can form an opinion.” Asher Siddiqui from the Song Family Office joins me on El Pack to answer your questions on how to build a venture capital fund. We bring on 3 GPs at VC funds to ask 3 different questions. Inuka Capital's Gautam Shewakramani asks about what GPs typically overshare and under-share when they're pitching an LP. As well as how an LP identifies if a GP has great sourcing if they're a generalist fund. Unshackled Venture's Manan Mehta asks if VC is still only one asset class. Is early stage now a combination of discovery and validation capital? Keymaker VC's Tim Wang asks what do most LPs overvalue in GPs. Asher Siddiqui is a global tech investor, M&A dealmaker, and venture fund builder with over 25 years of hands-on experience across venture capital, entrepreneurship, and more than $15B in executed M&A transactions.

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