8VC — Our Values

December 23, 2015

8VC is a venture firm dedicated to playing our part to help fix the world.

We believe the technologists and entrepreneurs of our generation are in a position to have a more widespread, positive impact on the world than any group…

The Quiet SMB Revolution of the 2010s

“Though only the generals’ names may be remembered in the history of any great campaign, it has been in a great measure through the individual valour and heroism of the privates that victories have been won. And life, too, is ‘a soldiers battle’–men in the ranks…

A Few Ideas from the Trenches — Part 2

Lately I’ve had a strong sense that we’re living at a particularly important time in history, and I feel really lucky to get be able to interact with a lot of the actors firsthand.

A Few Ideas from the Trenches

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others. Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it’s our duty not only to mentor entrepreneurs…

Nine Lessons From a Living Legend, Ambassador Andy Young

Ambassador Andy Young is one of the great men of our times. It was an honor to get to spend part of an evening with him at the National Monument Foundation’s Annual Gala in Atlanta, where he was honored this past summer.

Announcing our Investment in Branch

“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings”
-Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890)

There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but…