Provider. Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will no
Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will not be too e
Showers at times had that we will likely see e off and on in the day tomorrow. South of san francisco, tomorrow morning, we start with patchy low clouds and sunshine, and a very different forecast north of golden gate, napa county, sonoma county. You will probably see showers for an at least one more day. An as we widen things out, look a the morning temperatures, in the mid to upper 40s. And highs tomorrow trending a little higher than today. Upper 50s and 60s. And temperatures start to the climb. The High Pressure stars to build back, and the showers start to head out. Farther off to the north through about friday. Then look at the weekend changeup. Heading our way again next weekend. Yet, another chance of some rain to start saturday. A few more scattered showers and sunday, the good news of that storm, it could bring snow to the sierra, and rain to extended forecast. Plan on a few showers tomorrow. France temperatures, trending more wild, and inland locations, it likely moans the s
We can provide introductions to them and help them navigate new challenges as they go through the business we like to think of ourselves as a money provider. Peter slen why can a company just go bank in traditional avenues. Speak one good question. Scott kupor sometimes theyre a very risky businesses that are going to lose money for a long period of time in banks unfortunately just arent in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing their capital so we are willing to take that risk in fact about half of what we invest half of an we will lose that money. I cant see a bank being happy about that. Peter slen where does the original money come from. Scott kupor the way our business works as we go out and raise money from a couple of different folks. University endowments are big source of capital so if you look at a Stanford University or yale university, they have large endowments and the abysses endowments to earn a return. That money then goes to help subsidize obviously the co
My bottom line, josh, until rates and apple stabilize, the market is not going to stabilize. I think the big picture thing to bear in mind is what were seeing this month is wholly of a piece what typically happens in august, what typically happens august in the third year of the president ial cycle, and coming out of an earnings season that, quite frankly, was not great but not terrible and better than expected on a lot of fronts. You had stocks run up into that better than expected earnings in most cases and then you had profit taking. Buy the rumor, sell the news none of this is foreign. None of this is strange to anyone who has been around for a long time. There are differences in the dynamics beneath the surface in terms of the way people trade these days that maybe make these effects more pronounced. But if you look at where we are in relative strength and internals, in the vix, all of this is well within the bounds of what weve seen historically, and i dont think that we need to