20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster

This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. Now joining me in the hot seat today, we have Max Altman. Max is the co-founder and managing partner at Saga Ventures, a $125 million early stage fund. And before Saga, Max was an investor with Apollo projects, Hydrazine Capital, and Altman Capital, where he deployed over $500 million into breakout names like Rippling and Reddit, to name a few. But before we dive into the show today,

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