E984: Vice Ventures Founding Partner Catharine Dockery raised $25M to invest in vices: marijuana, sextech, gambling, alcohol, vaping; shares insights on hacking her way into VC through cold emails & a strong investment thesis, capitalizing on early markets hungry for investment

0:47 Jason intros Catharine Dockery 4:29 How Catharine came up with Vice Ventures 7:00 What was the response when Catharine began raising her first fund? 7:19 What does harm-reduction mean for Vice Ventures? 9:21 Getting Marc Andreessen to invest in her fund 13:32 Strangest emails Catharine has received since starting Vice Ventures 16:01 Investing in cannabis 20:15 Investing in psychedelics 26:33 Investing in gambling 31:16 Who are Catharine's typical LPs? 32:15 Investing in alcohol 39:33 Investing in sextech 44:06 Vice Ventures strong thesis against harming others 47:22 Is Vice Ventures hiring?