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David Zhou

David Zhou

Co-founder of The Side Letter and host of the Superclusters podcast for emerging LPs; venture investor, writer, and angel investor.

Jun 9, 2026

24:20
Well, it depends,
24:21
right? There are certain industries that realistically might take a long time for an exit time horizon.
24:26
So like deep tech, life sciences... likely a longer time horizon.
24:31
But at the same time, like if you look at life sciences per se, like usual exit sizes in the past, like five years have been like 500 mil to $2 billion.
24:38
So technically should realize by like year seven, year eight kind of thing, assuming you invest in year one.
24:43
But there are other industries that are zombie businesses.
24:47
And it's sometimes it's better to sell into the next round as opposed to keep holding for the wish that it might be something else because the memo, and I go back to something that Jerry Colonna once told me, which is like, the memo is buy low, sell high, not buy lowest, sell high.

15 MINS LATER

39:56
It's the same thing.

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