I have so many friends in VC from GSB.

我有很多来自 GSB 的创业投资朋友。

That's where venture capital or VC comes in.

这就需要进行风险投资。

Increasingly, though, the venture-capital (vc) industry is showing an interest.

尽管如此，风险投资(Vc)行业也对这一领域表现出了越来越浓的兴趣。

About one in 50 partners at venture-capital (vc) firms is black.

而在风险投资公司，约每50个合伙人中就有一个是黑人。

Andreessen Horowitz are Big Tech, they are Silicon Valley, massive VC funds.

安德·洛维茨是科技公司，他们是硅谷，规模的风险投资基金。

Nick Cooney is a partner of Lever VC, a U.S.-Asian investor focused on the new food companies.

·（Nick Cooney）是关注初创食品公司的美国亚洲风险投资基金Lever VC的合伙人。

You were a VC. You still do investments, correct?

你是一个风投。你还在做投资，对吗？

But I'd never taken the time to understand what was motivating that VC to invest.

但我从来没有花时间去了解是什么促使 VC 进行投资。

Yeah, and that seems like a good bet for a VC firm.

是的，这对于风险投资公司来说似乎是一个不错的选择。

But this is very different than sitting on VC with your hands in your lap talking.

但这与坐在 VC 上双手放在膝上说话有很不同。

And for that, you don't need a legion of engineers, millions of users or VC funding.

为此，您不需要批工程师、数百万用户或风险投资资金。

All it takes is one VC doing the perp walk, and everyone gets the message.

只需要一个 VC 做 perp walk，每个人都得到消息。

Let me start the meeting in VC while I wrap up some texts and do some other things.

让我在 VC 中开始会议，同时结束一些文本并做一些其他事情。

And I think it's Pitch Magazine rated Chicago as the number one city for return on VC money.

我认为 Pitch Magazine 将芝加哥评为风险投资回报率第一的城市。

Megan Lightcap, an investor with a VC firm called Slow Ventures, she leads their investments in the creator economy.

Megan Lightcap 是一家名为 Slow Ventures 的风险投资公司的投资者，她领导着他们对创作者经济的投资。

If a renowned vc outfit was investing in a startup, the theory went, it must be a safe bet.

如果一家著名的风险投资公司正在投资一家初创公司，那么从理论上讲，这一定是一个安全的赌注。

But when we raised VC money, we were not raising as a production company.

但是当我们筹集风险投资资金时，我们并不是作为一家制作公司筹集资金。

It remains to be seen whether the Silicon Valley VC type approach will actually get us to commercial fusion faster.

硅谷 VC 类型的方法是否真的能让我们更快地进行商业融合还有待观察。

But not all companies can actually support this supercharged growth model, argues Mark Goldberg of Index Ventures, another vc firm.

但并非所有公司都能真正支持这种超速增长模式，另一家风险投资公司 Index Ventures 的 Mark Goldberg 认为。

They should also broaden their professional networks beyond the usual lily-white crowd, argues Elliott Robinson of Bessemer Venture Partners, a big vc firm.

型风险投资公司Bessemer Venture Partners的艾略特·罗宾逊认为，他们应该扩自己的专业网络，不再只是常见的白人群体。