E43 Opening a global hub for tech entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley with SkyDeck founding GP Chon Tang

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Sand Hill Road

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E43 Opening a global hub for tech entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley with SkyDeck founding GP Chon Tang

Sand Hill Road

46 minutes 47 seconds

3 years ago

E43 Opening a global hub for tech entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley with SkyDeck founding GP Chon Tang

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Chon Tang, the founding GP of the Skydeck Fund. Chon is an experienced Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He was formerly founding partner and Managing Director of Junzi Capital Engineering, a leading quantitative hedge fund investing in the commodity space. He has been actively investing in Silicon Valley startups for 12 years, and has personal investments in over 25 deals with multiple IPOs and exits.

00:00 Intro

03:40 Starting a tech company in 2000

09:27 Founder-investor transition

17:51 The art of talent arbitrage

22:09 Raising Fund II

27:00 Portfolio construction

30:40 Skydeck Fund entry point

32:50 Success stories

37:00 Skydeck Accelerator Program + Challenges

41:00 The accidental VC

45:00 Next Skydeck batch