👋 Quick heads up: This newsletter challenges everything you think you know about portfolio management. Including what I thought I knew. 

What you'll learn:

• Why conventional wisdom about portfolio size and founder support is fundamentally flawed

• A counterintuitive approach that turns large portfolios into an advantage

• A practical 2-hour framework for delivering systematic value at any scale

Remember when I said large portfolios = worse founder support?

Yeah, about that...

The Story: When Size Becomes Strength

Remember when I said large portfolios = worse founder support? Yeah, about that...

"Wholeheartedly disagree that this is the trade-off," Philipp Möhring, founder of Tiny VC, responded to that email. "You can have a small portfolio and be very aggressive vs founders, meddling and micro-managing, and you can have a large portfolio, focus on your strengths and trust the founder with other things."

Following up from that exchange, two hypotheses emerged from a lunch conversation last week:

1. Most investors struggle to provide any real proactive value

2. When they do invest time, the ROI is usually unclear

The Insight: Quality Over Quantity

The conventional formula is broken:

• More portfolio companies ≠ less value

• Less attention ≠ worse support

• Portfolio size = potential leverage

Instead, focus on:

1. Pick your superpower (one thing you're genuinely great at)

2. Build a system to deliver it consistently

3. Let your portfolio/community size amplify your impact

🛠️ Want to implement this tomorrow? Here's your playbook:

The Quick Win: Your 2-Hour Value Engine

Step 1: Audit Your Value (30 mins)

• List every founder interaction from last month

• Circle the ones that actually moved the needle

• Find the pattern (hint: it's not the "catch-up calls")

Step 2: Pick Your Lane (30 mins)

• Choose ONE thing you do better than 90% of investors

• Make it specific (not "hiring help" but "3 VP Engineering intros in 14 days")

• Write down exactly how you'll deliver it

Step 3: Build Your System (1 hour)

• Create a simple intake form

• Set up your delivery workflow

• Test with 3 portfolio companies

🚫 What doesn't work:

• Random "how can I help?" emails

• Generic networking events

• Being everyone's therapist

✅ What does:

• Specific, measurable support

• Systems that scale

• Focused expertise

The future of venture support isn't about time spent – it's about value delivered.

Want to dive deeper? Reply with "INVESTOR," and I'll send you my 25-page investor reflection guide—hot off the press!

PS: Yes, of course, you are building a concentrated industry portfolio with deep knowledge in a specific industry, geo, or business model. Keep it going. You will still likely end up with 20+ portfolio companies in every fund. So the above applies to you, too.