The Diary of a VC  with Katerina Hayes

The Diary of a VC Hosted by Katerina Hayes — fund manager, Scaler Capital.
80% of VC-backed companies fail.
The industry calls it the cost of doing business. I'm not convinced.
So I'm spending this podcast finding out what it actually takes to be in the 20% — and what the other 80% were missing that nobody talks about out loud.
Each episode, I sit with the people who'd know: venture capitalists who've seen the pattern repeat, institutional investors who fund the funds, and operators who scaled through the moments most companies don't survive.
The questions are the ones nobody asks on stage. What did you see coming that the founder didn't? What support arrived too late? What would you do differently with the same cap table today?
No gatekeeping. No highlight reels. Just the conversations venture has been avoiding — and what they reveal about a new era of VC.
🎧 New episodes weekly. Subscribe if you want the answers, not the spin.