The Curious Learners
I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world. The Curious Learners is an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started. Looking forward to a long journey together.
The Curious Learners
Ulric Musset | Facilitating Private Market Investing | The Curious Learners Ep. 25
My guest today is Ulric Musset. He is the co-founder of Vauban, which is a technology platform that facilitates private market investing.
He and his co-founder Remy Astie have worked on many other projects prior to Vauban, including the very unique idea of a French bakery in London! Luckily for us as investors, they landed on Vauban.
Below are some key highlights from our very interesting discussion:
- What was critical in the Vauban journey so far? --> It is timing. When started in 2018, a lot of VCs thought the market is too small. But then two years ago in 2020, things exploded.
- What is the biggest trend that you have seen starting Vauban? --> Fund managers want to start their own funds and investors want to get more exposure into VC.
- Why is VC the right space for Vauban? --> By definition, VC invests in tech and they are early adopters of new tech solutions.
- Where does Vauban add value? --> Across the whole process of raising money and deploying into start-ups with a USP of being truly international.
- Where would Vauban be in 3-5 years? --> Focus on the product, enable much larger number of fund managers and make investing process for investors extremely easy
- Most curious about? --> Different types of civilisations and essentially SpaceTech!!!
Please enjoy my conversation with Ulric Musset.
