Secondaries in Venture

01/10/2025 42 min Temporada 3 Episodio 44

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Who doesn’t love a hustle story? Especially in venture capital.This one starts in 2009, with Jared Carmel helping a Facebook employee cash out their stock options. Fast forward: he’s now running Manhattan Venture Partners, a $1.5B secondaries powerhouse — ranked top 5 in the U.S.And here’s the punchline:Venture’s old playbook — fund startups, wait for the IPO, call it liquidity — is broken.The real shift? Secondaries.👉 Companies stay private for 20 years.👉 Employees can’t wait that long to pay their bills.👉 Wall Street is piling in, discounts collapsing from 55% to 13%.This is the biggest structural shift in venture capital history.As Jared says:“You can’t have innovation without rewarding the people building it. If public markets won’t do that job anymore—secondaries will.”🔥 Watch the full episode to see why secondaries aren’t just the future of liquidity… they’re the new foundation of venture capital.