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Beezer Clarkson

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Beezer Clarkson

@Beezer232

Looking to change the world for the better through technology, investing & partnerships. MD @ LGT Capital Partners. ✍️ at @Open_LP , Co-host Origins Podcast 🎤

Austin / ✈️

Joined April 2009

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Beezer Clarkson
@Beezer232
Aug 4
Yup. And even more difficult is repeating strong returns fund over fund.
David Clark
@daveclark85
Aug 4
Next time you hear a GP predict their new fund will hit 5x or an LP say they are targeting 5x returns from VC, just show them this table from @PeterJ_Walker Exceptional returns from venture are possible. But, by definition, they are the exception, not the norm.
Beezer Clarkson
@Beezer232
Jul 30
The best partner diligence often isn't a weekend offsite or a list of 50 questions. It's years of watching how someone thinks, operates & makes decisions. So when @nchirls asked me if Thomas Kristensen and I did the rite of passage "50 Qs" exercise before Sapphire joined forces
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Beezer Clarkson
@Beezer232
Jul 29
A few weeks ago I asked @pavelprata whether the barbell effect we’re seeing today looked anything like 2021 based on the H1 2026 fundraising data he pulled. Yesterday, he delivered. His framing of today's fundraising market as "concentration inside a contraction" is a succinct
Pavel Prata
@pavelprata
Jul 28
when @Beezer232 asks – we cook data. a few weeks ago we published data on VC fundraising in H1 2026, and @Beezer232 asked whether the barbell effect is real and similar to the 2021 ZIRP era. we don't have fund-level 2021 data in our own tracker at @murphcapital (we only started
Beezer Clarkson
@Beezer232
Jul 16
1/ Anyone who knows me knows I love digging into venture data, which is why I💛this analysis from @micahjay1 & @fcollective looking at the 500 largest startup exits (from ~100,000 venture-backed companies) over the last 25 years👇
Founder Collective – Seed Stage Venture Capital
@fcollective
Jul 10
Article
Unicorn Lists Are Prediction Markets. This List Is a Scorecard.
Most people in the startup ecosystem are focused on the future. What trends and new technologies will matter? Which founders will define the next decade? Will a startup become a unicorn, decacorn, or...
Beezer Clarkson
@Beezer232
Jul 15
Another 'must read' post by @nchirls on core attributes of founders and investors. The power of Patience. Spot on as always. "long-term games with long-term people" - 🙏 for being part of my long term
Nicholas Chirls
@nchirls
Jul 15
[New Blog Post] about Patience, linked below 👇 Lots of chatter about securing the bag now or remaining forever part of the permanent underclass. Patience means you'll be poorer today but secure a lot more bag in the future, a strategy fewer and fewer are willing to undertake,