{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tech.eu","title":"🎙️Moving at angel speed without the traditional VC formality: Solo GP Sarah Drinkwater and her new £10 million fund","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1572,"description":"On this Drive at Five editione speziale the omnipresent community builder/angel investor/and now Solo GP, Sarah Drinkwater sits in to discuss her newly announced fund, Common Magic.\n\nTune in, turn it up, and start taking notes, because this week we're talking:\n- What is a Solo GP fund?\n- Angel speed, less structure, more access.\n- Nightclub term sheets.\n- Traditions to keep, traditions to change.\n- Sarah has raised one-third of a targeted £10 million.\n- Investing in 30 to 35 startups in Europe and the US at the pre-seed and seed stage.\n- \"Hey kid, here's a hundred bucks, don't spend it all in one place.\"\n- \"Products with community at their core.\" What does that mean?\n- Sarah's first job? You do not want to miss the answer.\n- Flexing the Google\n- 2014 - 2018 London. Good times.\n- SuperVenture: 40 people at a meeting, 38 in ironed white or blue shirts.\n- Temperature check: what is the funding landscape like at the minute?\n- What are LPs looking for right now?\n- Who do you see as people, \"who are underestimated and underrepresented in their field\"?\n- Grit!\n- An eye infection, pitching for 50 hours a week, and nobody says yes.\n- Pitfalls founders should be aware of when setting out on community building.\n- Nick breathes community. But only if they smell good.\n- A thesis, an ah-ha moment, and a \"but isn't this obvious?\"\n- Great club nights.\n- \"I'm always nervous about trends because trends imply impermanence.\"\n- Building community is hard. Community builders are busy.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3S7FadxnDDFVJsNF1EaysmsIekXd_xWzeJsc4XIE2HQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzkzMTcvMTYyOTQ0/ODQ2OS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}