Venture Capital interview preparation

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1. 002What are your connections in the healthcare tech industry?Sourcing and deal flowIntermediatefirst roundAndreessen HorowitzTechnology, Media and Telecom · San Francisco · 2020

   Say this

   Answer with named, specific relationships and what each one gives you, not with a claim to be well-connected. And be honest about where the network is thin, then say how you are filling it, because a junior candidate is not expected to have a partner-level rolodex.

   Then walk it

   1. Name three or four real people and the category of access each represents. A clinician who can tell you whether a workflow product actually saves time. An operator at a payer who understands reimbursement. A founder or two in the space.
   2. Say what you get from each. The clinician tells you if adoption is real; the payer contact tells you whether the thing gets paid for, which is the whole game in healthcare.
   3. Then show the machine that builds it. A monthly cadence of calls, notes you keep, and a habit of writing something public in the space so inbound starts working for you.
   4. Be concrete about the gap. Something like: I have good clinical depth and almost no relationships on the payer or hospital procurement side, and here are the two people I am trying to get to this quarter.
   5. Then tie it to the firm. If their healthcare thesis is provider workflow, say which of your contacts is directly useful for diligence on that, because they are testing whether you can add to the firm's diligence bench, not whether you are popular.

   Where candidates lose it

   Inflating the network. VC is a small world and the interviewer probably knows your named contacts or can check in one call. Also answering with a count rather than a use: 'I know a lot of people in health tech' is worse than naming two people and exactly what each one can verify for you.

   Expect next

   • Who would you call to diligence a claims-automation company?
   • What is the single biggest thing you have learned from one of those people?
   • How do you build a network in a sector you are new to?

   Reported by candidates at Andreessen Horowitz (Technology, Media and Telecom, San Francisco, 2020). Source: Wall Street Oasis.

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