The Brutal Truth about Building a VC Fund I Christian Nagel, Co-Founder Earlybird

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Venture Lab with Luis

Luis Druschke

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The greatest opportunities are often hidden behind closed doors. This podcast opens them up. After seven years in a different industry, last year I developed a strange obsession with startups and venture capital. I consumed every podcast, video, and book I could find. And while entrepreneurship does not need another podcast, it desperately needs transparency, accessibility, and conversations that go beyond funding rounds and exits. Venture Lab tells the personal stories of Europe's most exceptional investors and most innovative founders.

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The Brutal Truth about Building a VC Fund I Christian Nagel, Co-Founder Earlybird

Venture Lab with Luis

35 minutes 56 seconds

2 months ago

The Brutal Truth about Building a VC Fund I Christian Nagel, Co-Founder Earlybird

Christian Nagel, co-founder of Earlybird Venture Capital, unpacks 28 years of European VC: how to build top-performing funds, pick founders when product isn’t enough, and why real VC “education” costs $50M. We cover Earlybird’s evolution from the dot-com crash to €2.5B AUM, category-defining exits, and a data-driven future of founder discovery and portfolio construction. If you’re a VC, operator, or ambitious founder, you NEED to watch this. In this episode, Christian shares:

• Why “lose $50M” is the tuition great investors pay and what it teaches about portfolio construction.

• The playbook for surviving VC’s “nuclear winter”: using management fees for winners in 2000

• How to avoid being “dumb money” in co-invests and win by leading and staying close to founders.

• The next era of European VC: specialization and AI-enabled sourcing