Quick Study: How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

Since the 1970s, venture capitalists have backed about one-third of all large publicly traded companies started in the U.S. That’s one of the remarkable findings from Ilya Strebulaev, a finance professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business who studies the inner workings of the VC industry. Here, in the latest episode of our Quick Study video series, Strebulaev discusses what he’s learned about “the VC mindset” — a unique approach to investing in risky, high-growth startups. #gsbquickstudy