How to break into Anti Fund (or any VC)
I get multiple emails and DMs every day from students and young professionals asking how they can get a job or internship at Anti Fund.
Most are slop. But I do appreciate the higher quality attempts that begin with a personal introduction, a CV with some technical or financial internships / accomplishments, and have a good story on why they want to be a VC.
Better, but not enough.
The only thing that matters to a VC is flow: capital flow, information flow, and people flow. Capital flow is access to money. Information flow is access to domain-specific, esoteric knowledge. People flow is access to exceptional talent. If you want to break into Anti Fund (or any VC), bring one of those.
Capital flow
If you're cold DMing me for an entry-level job, you're not in capital flow. You do not traffic in the socialite circles of the large allocators, endowments, and UHNW family offices. Put it simply, if you can deliver me a huge pile of LP dollars, I'll give you a job. But if you can do this, you already can get yourself paid and/or get yourself a job anywhere. If you are actually in flow with capital, then money is not the constraint for you, so you'll have to then convince me why you appreciate Anti Fund specifically.
Information flow
You probably do not have better global information flow than I do, but you might have better local information flow in a specific technical niche I care about. I care about AI, AI infrastructure, semiconductors, power, manufacturing, and defense/frontier tech. I can’t read everything or meet everyone, so I can’t know everything across all of these domains in real time.
But a book report and market map is insufficient demonstration of mastery.
A market map is not information flow. A book report is not information flow. A summary of public articles is not information flow.
Information flow means you know what serious people in a technical niche are building, what changed this week, who is underrated, what constraints are breaking, and where a new company might emerge.
You must show that you have durable, sustainable information flow and can actually generate investment opportunities in those domains. If you can do this once a day for 30 days in a row, I would give you an internship / job, and let you run that part of the business for us.
People flow
You have a different people and talent network than me. Venture is about the future, and I need to constantly tap into the next generation of founders, researchers, engineers, and operators. If you introduce me to one interesting person a day I would actually take a call with, and you do this for 30 days in a row, I'll give you an internship / job. This is the easiest way to break into venture. Not because it is easy, but because it is available to almost anyone with taste, consistency, and social courage.
Now you know what I want, please don't follow up with a generic thank you note or a request for time, money, attention.
Instead send me email to geoff @ in this format:
- One company or person I should know.
- Why they matter.
- Why now.
- Why Anti Fund should care.
- Your relationship to the opportunity.
Do that once a day for 30 days. If the flow is good, I will notice. Bring flow, then we can talk.