Cash Allred

Antler

One of the most active pre-seed VCs in the world, focused on founders at Day Zero.

Principal

Sweater

Venture Capital Associate

Lucid

Lucid products empower teams and companies of any size, in any location, to see where they are today and where they need to go next.

Data Analyst, Strategy & Analytics

University Impact

UI unlocks donor-advised funds (DAFs) and advises donors on impact investments into both for-profit and non-profit entities around the world.

VC Associate

Banyan Ventures

Early stage venture fund focused on traditional businesses in the Mountain West.

Summer Associate

Peterson Partners

Investment firm spanning early stage VC, growth equity, small to middle market buyouts, and industry consolidation across a variety of industries. Example investments include Bonobos, HireVue, Vivint, and My Hearing Centers.

Private Equity Summer Analyst

Elevate Global

Elevate Global provides training products and technology to microfinance institutions to assist necessity entrepreneurs grow their business, leave poverty, and repay borrowed capital.

Project Manager

Currently a Principal @ Antler, a pre-seed fund focused on backing founders at Day Zero. 

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Considering a rule of not investing in any 2x+ founders who didn’t send regular investor update in their previous company. 

The best founders I have worked with (and would back again) all did them, or at least called regularly, regardless of the outcome of the company.

Early-Stage Investor @ Antler | Tech, Startups, VC

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Pretty good Black Friday. I saved…. all of my money.

New team members can increase speed in execution, but destroys speed in decision making, fixing core problems in a business, gathering feedback, etc. 

> Feedback loop gets longer (time). 
> Adds layers (dilution) between founder and data, customers, etc. 
> Too many people to keep happy in each decision (burden of proof goes up). 

Leaves founders a few options when decision making and data collection is most important:

> Don't hire anyone, reduce the team size. This is increasingly a great option given AI or if the founders just need a little more time to dial in. 
> Choose someone who can take the wiplash and just do the work, but they have to be extremely fast. 
> Choose someone who is a founder in their own write but within the org, but they have to have extremely good judgement.

One of our coolest investments is looking for a Power Systems Engineer.

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