Aren't you a little young to be running a VC fund?
Some say young people are more savvy about what clicks with the younger generation. Others find them clueless about doing business
London
AT the age of 27, Andre de Haes raised 30 million euros (S$48 million) for his London-based venture capital fund, Backed VC. Now 30, he and his 29-year-old business partner Alex Brunicki are among a cohort of young investors that are having a greater say in how the billions that have flowed into European venture capital in recent years are spent.
But while younger investors argue that youth gives them a better understanding of what startups might resonate with their age-group, some founders, who recount frustrating meetings with inexperienced venture capitalists, fear an over-reliance on millennial investors' intuition at the expense of know-how.
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