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The parts of a venture career the job board cannot explain.

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5 minute readWhy most venture jobs are never postedThe firms are hiring. What they are not doing is posting the job you want.6 minute readHow to get a job at a venture capital firmA sequence, not a list of tips. Get the first decision right and the rest gets considerably easier.5 minute readPlatform roles, the door into venture that is actually openThe investing seat is the one everybody applies for. The seats around it are the ones being advertised.5 minute readCarry, explained before you signCarry is the reason venture pays well at the top, and worth less than it sounds for almost everyone else.4 minute readAnalyst, associate, principal, partner: the venture ladder explainedFive titles, no standard definitions, and a ladder that describes about six percent of venture employment.5 minute readMoving into venture from investment bankingThe most common origin story in venture, and the most commonly overrated one.5 minute readThe venture interview: what they actually ask you to doA firm hiring an investor is trying to answer one question: can this person be trusted with judgment.4 minute readDo you need an MBA to work in venture capital?No. And that is the least useful true answer available, so here is the longer one.4 minute readMoving into venture as an operatorYou have built something. And you keep being told venture is closed unless you did banking first.4 minute readGetting into venture capital as a studentFirms will talk to you specifically because you are not asking for a job yet.3 minute readWhy nobody publishes what venture paysThe silence around venture pay is measurable, and it changes how candidates negotiate.3 minute readWhat a venture analyst actually does all dayYou will not spend your days deciding which companies get funded.4 minute readMoving into venture from consultingThe widest gap in this market between how good a background looks on paper and how it lands in the room.4 minute readVenture studios, corporate VC and family offices comparedVenture firm covers organisations that do genuinely different work.