Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje (@rodrigo_sanser) is taking us back to school. The mark of any great basketball player is an intimate grasp of the fundamentals. The same is true for any fund manager seeking to build a generational firm. Rodrigo asks us first to understand what race we're in so that we can pick the right vehicle to win. Rodrigo is the GP at B37 Ventures, an open-ended fund based in the Bay, that helps their startups validate-product market fit and scale by introducing them to their first, second, and third corporate multinational customers, who also serve as LPs in the fund. No doubt, that a unique strategy necessitates a unique fund structure. 

In today's episodes, we learn that most venture funds are structured in a pretty similar way, but we also learn what happens when they're not. Rodrigo walks us through what happens when you play with time, liquidity, and recycling. With new and interesting models emerging from Social Capital essentially turning into a tech holding company using SPACS to Tribe Capital's co-investment platform, it's more important than ever to understand what structures are available to you. Rodrigo also dishes on the frameworks he pulls in from investing on the behalf of the world's richest man, and his takeaways from working on one of the most important Mexican elections of the past hundred years. 

Rodrigo takes us back to the basics as he teaches us how to build a great fund from day one.