Joe Wilson, Managing Partner at Undeterred Capital - VC from the ground up - The Michael Girdley Show Episode 48

The Michael Girdley Show

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Joe Wilson (@_joewilson), a Deep Tech Investor who runs a VC Fund in LA, we talk about a lot of interesting things like the works under deep tech and bioscience investing, how Joe acted to the COVID Pandemic 2020 as a scientist and also went through defining what a shady business is or not.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) - Introduction

(1:00) - Our sponsor is DMBridge

(2:15) - Get to know Joe Wilson

(6:28) - You went both to MIT and Duke, what can you share from both experiences?

(7:43) - How do you perceive the network power of going through University?

(9:06) - In what way does the standard or IT SAS kind of VC vary from healthcare or biotech?

(11:58) - Research in deep tech investing: What should you think about Due Diligence?

(13:13) - How do companies practice diligence considering the red flags from founders & spending time with people?

(14:40) - Start-up seed & pre-seed stages: Mission driven founders & profitability

(17:50) - Why is actual fraud rampant in start-ups?

(19:56) - What are the dynamics for deep tech or healthcare companies? Why do they consider not hurting people as one?

(21:51) - What would we consider a shady business? What is the Front Page Test rubric?:

(25:00) - Where do you stand when it comes to elemental power generation?

(26:35) - How to find an investment thesis and focus areas?

(29:23) - Shifting gears, how do you break into Venture Capital?

(32:50) - What kind of VC do you want to be?

(38:49) - What is the response from a Scientist’s perspective to COVID? How did you plan for success when initiating the COVID response team?

(44:36) -The main benefit of doing something really hard

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Links:

• https://www.joewilson.co/about

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