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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by Turner Novak, Founding Partner of Banana Capital, which was launched in 2021. Prior to that, he ran all venture capital investing at Gelt VC and invested in their second fund. Prior to that, Turner was a member of the investment team out of Afore Capital, and previous to that helped manage a 1.6 billion endowment. Prior to that worked in credit, private equity, and corporate finance.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Turner Novak
04:00 Turner Novak’s whistling talent
9:15 Investing in eCommerce platforms
14:45 How Turner makes LPs more money
20:00 Funny Cold Emails
26:18 Turner’s philosophy on scaling his venture team
Show notes:
Turner Novak |   / turnernovak  
BeReal | https://bere.al/en
New Wave | https://www.newwave.vc/
Jean de La Rochebrochard |   / jeandlr  
Olivia Deng |   / olivia_deng_