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Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)

Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)

Update: 2025-11-06
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This Sponsored Insight features Dave Thornton, the Co-Founder and CEO of Vested, a venture secondaries platform that provides liquidity to the long tail of startup employees whose stock options often go abandoned or ignored and seeks to deliver diversified, attractively priced exposure to the top 20% of venture-backed startups.


Our conversation covers Dave's background bridging entrepreneurship and finance, the dynamics of employee stock options, and the development of Vested's investment strategy. We discuss sourcing deals, predicting success of start-ups with a quantitative model, constructing portfolios, and avoiding risks. We close by touching on the future of liquidity and indexing in venture capital.


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Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)

Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)