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...career change, not trading Ford for Chevy, but really going in a whole other direction, how should someone begin approaching that process? One of the things I talk about and I write about in The Other Side of Change is around how we can realize the p
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...pivot in that moment. It really became transformative for my career after that. Mhmm. It's easy to see that in retrospect, but when it was happening and I was like, oh my effing god. Yeah. That didn't feel so good. Yeah. But it's hard to it's hard to
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...actually pivot my career when I left my people and culture role at Reddit. I simply expanded the work that I loved so that I could do it better at scale. So early stage investing has allowed me to do exactly that. So that was a very long winded way o
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...myself and my career journey. For the first time, I actually chose curiosity and passion over money and title, which I think is a really, really, really hard but important lesson to learn for any young professional.
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And then worked at Goldman Sachs for a couple of years, did the asset management thing, got to do a lot of public equities and commodities trading. And then in 2012, I was like, you know what? I wanna go back to the startup world and, back because of
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in the right ways and bad reputations travel in the wrong ones. So so so first and foremost, I would really cultivate a, you know, a track record of, you know, kind of performing well in whatever role or industry you're in now. Second, if you have an
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...unusual pivot. While I had looked for jobs in VC coming out of Lycos, it wasn't a great time to get hired in that market. So So I went to work for an airline instead of of all things, but I got an analyst role doing route planning at an airline that
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backtracking a little bit, I I worked in consulting right out of college. I had the distinct joy of implementing Workday HCM along with other such projects, which kinda ties into the accounting and the ERP stuff we're gonna talk about later, which su
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...your in your career? Yeah. That that's, a a really interesting question. I I would say, probably, when I was looking to leave the m and a team at Lycos, that was around 2003, I really wanted to work in VC at that point. I I kinda knew, like, this wou
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...a career in defense and government, and it just, like, I was lost. So I was in my early twenties. Like, now what? What do I do? I have no skills. So I did kind of what I do best. I've always been a natural networker. Love meeting people. Love learnin
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...my career in business, and I worked always for, my own start up. I for a while, I ran my family's publishing company after my father retired. But my only experience in a big company is when Nielsen bought my company Neurofocus. And so I spent a year
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...in your career journey. But my journey into tech was I was very interested in tech at a young age before that's during the .com bubble that I got really excited about tech. Started even investing whatever money I had at the time, which was very littl
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...career path. So why don't we start with you telling me a little bit more about what inspired you to pursue a career in venture capital, and how did you navigate your way into the industry? So my journey into venture was really inspired by a passion f
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a career in defense and government, and it just, like, I was lost. So I was in my early twenties. Like, now what? What do I do? I have no skills. So I did kind of what I do best. I've always been a natural networker. Love meeting people. Love learnin
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...career? Now that used to be a tiny fraction of people that would answer, and probably half the people in the audience. And I thought, wow. This is like a transformation of my field that used to be something totally secret, something hidden away, tuck
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And, you know, that was at Lightspeed. I got my shot from Jeremy Liu who hired me in 2018. I started in 2019 and just had a phenomenal experience there, tons of investing. But that was really kind of the upbringing that led me here today. And so now
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Everybody should be doing this, and we should see every company offer something similar to this. I think that's the key is, like, it it is a little bit of a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing. Like, if if you go to Palantir instead of college, you're c
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...like my career was just skidding and did not know what to do. Can we just pause for a second? Because I think this is an experience that so many of us feel. Yes. We have these moments where we just we're waking up at two in the morning and going, I m
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