Vanessa Brooks — the intro

Okay, quick test. Tell me your wedge in one sentence. Not the TAM slide, not the vision. One sentence. [chuckles] Most people can't do it after eighteen months of building. That's kind of the whole job. I'm Vanessa Brooks. I'm a general partner at a venture fund in San Francisco. Twelve years in, which means I've passed on companies that became unicorns and funded companies that became zombies, and I'll tell you about both. On here, you'll get the read behind the headline round, the cap table math the press release skips, and the founder archetypes that keep showing up in my calendar. Real mechanics. No vibes. I've been editing a Substack draft for four months. This is faster.