This article is the first known study assessing the relationship between the experiences of the philanthropic venture capital firm's founding team, and their venture firm's economic, social, and total performance. Results indicate that commercial and social experience help economic and social performance respectively. However, when pursuing the maximization of both social and economic performance, philanthropic venture capital firms perform best when the founding team has high levels of commercial experience and low levels of social experience.

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