• Peter Walker, Head of Insights @ Carta, Discusses the 2024 Early-Stage Startup Cheat Sheet, Plus Thoughts on SAFEs, YC, and Venture as A Craft Business

  • May 15 2024
  • Length: 52 mins
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Peter Walker, Head of Insights @ Carta, Discusses the 2024 Early-Stage Startup Cheat Sheet, Plus Thoughts on SAFEs, YC, and Venture as A Craft Business

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    Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. Carta is a cloud-based solution that helps organizations in the finance industry streamline and manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.


    Today on the podcast we discuss:

    1. Carta 2024 Early-Stage Startup Cheat Sheet Background

    - Where is the data coming from? (0:46)

    - Key Takeaways from the Data (6:55)


    2. SAFEs, Their Function, and Complications (12:31)


    3. Fundraising

    -The effects of the changes to the economics of joining YC (20:04)

    -How much of funding for local startups is local money? (26:45)

    -What factors contribute when determining funding goals and approaching negotiations? (29:14)


    4. Putting the 2024 Early-Stage Startup Cheat Sheet in Context

    -What in the past decade has influenced the mechanisms of early stage fundraising? (36:16)


    5. VC As a Craft Business (40:55)


    6. Is It a Negative Signal to IPO? (48:17)
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