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Announcing this year's Midas List—honoring the world’s best venture capital investors: on.forbes.com/6015KFtZz #ForbesMidas Image
Inflation fears, broken supply chains and conflict in Ukraine have tech valuations tightening and IPOs on hold. But given their recent records, that won’t slow down these investors on the 21st annual Midas List of the world’s leading venture capitalists for long #ForbesMidas
The #ForbesMidas List is the definitive ranking of the top 100 tech investors. At number one for the first time is Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon, the two-time entrepreneur turned crypto investment king Image
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Wonderful but weird to be on #ForbesMidas. Having been a founder, I got into investing to stay involved in early-stage building. It's a lot easier on this side!

40 companies, 12 years, 8 unicorns, and 1 decacorn later, I have some lessons and predictions:
Seed deal flow is all about people. Most of my best investments—Coupang, Jet, Chief—came from years-long relationships with founders. Your pipeline is all the incredibly talented people you know and the supportive relationships you foster before they decide to start the business.
Concentrated portfolios, high conviction. I’ve averaged 3 deals/year over my career, including incubations. This forced me to think hard about every founder and only work with the ones I truly believe in. It also gave me time to seriously dive deep with them & offer hands-on help
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