...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 of saying, yes. I'v

...career, the sorts of things I wanna learn, the sort of culture I wanna be around, and that may not all necessarily come from one job at the same time. So I think in early work, we surveyed our audience. It was about 70% that have a side hustle or som

...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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...careers are never these, like, rhetoric races that Yeah. You think about. They're never perfect. They are, like, I think Cheryl in her book called it sort of a jungle gym. Like, that's much more much better metaphor for what a real career looks like.

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

...a career. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Increasingly, a lot of young people have side hustles in addition to their main role. I think careers are less of this linear, like, oh, I'm gonna do this one job, level up, career ladder every two

...your career evolving and and where you want it to go. I think second, I would say leverage your network. Venture is very much a people business. That's probably the number one thing young aspiring investors here. And you can source companies through

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

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

...sort of career moves, which seemed very different, but later would make a lot of sense in in how they would come together. Then went to business school, so went to HBS, in in Boston and then, decided to move to Europe after that, sort of combination

...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

...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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...of my career and my ability to be successful long term, I have a lot of options now that I'd never would have had if I hadn't joined Plaid. Joining Plaid is not what I consider the lucky break that I had. That would be joining Dropbox, which is my fi

Look. I did not know that I wanted to be a venture capital when I was doing software engineering. I just enjoyed technology, and that got me into software engineering, and I'm very grateful for it. Wh