@FinanceYF5: 5% of VCs create 90% of venture capital profits. Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev built a ranking based on 30 years and 230,000 investments, correcting for inflated valuations, round-by-round dilution, net income, and time decay, and does not use self-reported data from institutions. Its correlation with the Midas List is only 0.2...
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Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev releases a venture capital ranking based on 30 years and 230,000 investments, showing that 5% of VCs create 90% of profits, and it has a low correlation with the Midas List.
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5% of venture capital firms generate 90% of VC profits.
Stanford GSB Professor Ilya Strebulaev developed a ranking based on 30 years of data and 230,000 investments. The methodology corrects for inflated valuations, round-by-round dilution, net income, and time decay—and does not rely on self-reported institutional data.
Its correlation with the Midas List is only 0.27. For example, SV Angel backed 139 unicorns and ranks 31st, while Thrive backed 47 but ranks 8th. Backing more unicorns doesn’t necessarily mean earning more. https://t.co/S1by2w2VJ6
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