VC AM
Save yourself the read: some VCs really don’t do anything but like to play games
In response to my choking on A Day in the Life of a VC, Michael Nilsson asked Staffan Helgasson of our excellent colleagues up at Creandum and myself to keep an open diary. To prove that we’re uninteresting, pretentious, lazy, and like playing games, here’s a short writeup of my AM
00:00
Board call with West-coast based Neo4j. Well-run companies like Neo4j require minimal interaction, meaning I might as well just have read the deck and gone to bed early. Magnus, Emil, Lars, Johan, Utpal, and Philip, <3.
01:30
Email inbox 4,241
02:30
Zzzzzzzz
08:30
Shower, breakfast
09:00
Levels 45 and 46 of Seriously’s upcoming title Best Fiends completed.
09:30
Coffee, bike to work, coffee
10:00
Playing around with an early build of What on Earth from super-talented Traplight Games. I installed the game on Friday but didn’t have a chance to have a look. On Saturday morning, my 12y-old had picked up my iPad, saw a new game, and after a few minutes he, his 14y-old sister and 8y-old brother were all laughing aloud. An awesome sign for a new game.
Besides BADLAND, What on Earth has the best iPad editor I’ve seen.
10:30
Reddit, Hacker News, Kickstarter popular, AppAnnie, HumbleBundle indie pack
10:45
Watching a video demo of a new gaming community platform (think Soundcloud for games). Very nice! Why am I so bad at responding to people in a timely manner?
11:00
Deleted 2.1GB from iPad mini to install iOS 8. Oh gosh, a lot of saved levels went down the drain there.
11:15
One, two, three, four portfolio companies are raising fresh $. Reviewing redlines (yay, MS Word and the pungent chemical smell of laser-printed paper!) together with our in-house general counsel, Merete.
12:00
Coffee, email inbox 4,305. Ignoring all the meetings I should be rescheduling. Instead, getting tix for Eurostar and for Sam and Tom’s AWFUL Farewell Dinner, two of the crzie st chefs we’ve had in Copenhagen. They will be AWFULly missed round here.
12:30
Indian for lunch. I probably wouldn’t get that job at Creandum.
