{"id":2336,"date":"2025-07-09T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/drive-capitals-columbus-gamble-is-paying-off\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T00:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:03:29","slug":"drive-capitals-columbus-gamble-is-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/drive-capitals-columbus-gamble-is-paying-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Capital\u2019s Columbus gamble is paying off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos is joined by Drive Capital co-founder Chris Olsen. Chris explains how Drive&rsquo;s contrarian approach to fund size, ownership stakes, and geographic focus is generating returns where others firms are right now struggling. They also discuss the firm&rsquo;s current composition, three years after Olsen and his co-founder in the firm, Mark Kvamme, went their separate ways after originally meeting as colleagues at Sequoia Capital. Plus: why Silicon Valley billionaires are choosing Columbus, and what the &ldquo;venture reckoning&rdquo; means for the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>StrictlyVC Download posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>Apple<\/em><\/strong><em>,&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>Spotify,&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>or&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>wherever you listen to podcasts&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>to be alerted when new episodes drop.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Drive Capital&rsquo;s Columbus gamble is paying off<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos is joined by Drive Capital co-founder Chris Olsen. Chris explains how Drive&rsquo;s contrarian approach to fund size, ownership stakes, and geographic focus is generating returns where others firms are right now struggling. They also discuss the firm&rsquo;s current composition, three years after Olsen and his co-founder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/drive-capitals-columbus-gamble-is-paying-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Drive Capital\u2019s Columbus gamble is paying off&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}