disfunctional - Associate GSV Employee Review

1.0
9 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some really smart people, a lot of different things going on, wants to be larger than life. Mantra is bigger, faster, more = better

Cons

So scatter-brained, essentially an imposisble environment to work in. Would be a fun summer job to learn about edtech, but basically none of anything made any sense, in any regard, ever. If I didn't have any clear objectives and just wanted to try doing a bunch of random things, this would be perfect. But in terms of getting compensated and having a career path, the whole firm's existence is confusing to me. Also, almost all of the Partners were mean, like almost happy when people would fail which I thought was weird

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5.0
19 Apr 2024
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Pros

Got to work with and learn from smart people

Cons

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1.0
2 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It was very exciting and I learned a lot, but was only there for a summer

Cons

I'm not sure I can fully put into words how off my experience was here. There was such a strong culture of fear and mayhem. The employees called it "Chaos Ventures" behind the Partner's backs because everything was so unclear and helter-skelter. We were paraded around for our MBA logo like show ponies in front of the LPs which was very strange because we didn't work their full-time. Ultimately, I knew within the first week or two that I didn't want to work here and there's been 100%+ turnover since I left. Everyone thought it was a joke and seemed to regret accepting an offer there.

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