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...where your entrepreneurial spirit came from. I think it comes from my dad. My dad is an entrepreneur. We moved from Korea when I was three. This was, yeah, in the eighties. And he actually moved to Seattle as an expat. So he was working for a big Kor
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...Entrepreneurial Students. It's the largest entrepreneurship organization on campus. Through that organization, I got exposed to a lot of different parts of Silicon Valley, both on campus and off campus. I worked with a ton of startups that were being
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“Started first business at 11: How early entrepreneurship shapes venture investors”
...entrepreneurial studies program. It kind of pioneered that as a field of of academia
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what matters in startups at the moment is your pace, your productivity, your velocity, how fast you can move, and being able to, bring some of the world's best founders here to capitalize on that. It's just a it's a match made in heaven. You created
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...entrepreneurial journey early. Can you tell us about your first forays into being an entrepreneur? Yeah. Absolutely. My, earliest days were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which is where I was born. And, you know, Baton Rouge is a city that's divided and
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...the entrepreneurial drive. A lot of times, like, these big companies, I would just get frustrated because they would move slow where I had all these ideas that just I couldn't get anywhere. And so the drive was always there even though I had more of
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...are you in an entrepreneurial environment in finance? I would say a 100%. Absolutely. But entrepreneurism today takes a different look and shape. Back then, it was just doing something in a smaller basis and not as institutional. When I was in colleg
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...some form of entrepreneurial project early. They're thirteen, fourteen building websites. They could be selling cookies at their school, but they start entrepreneurship in some way early. Do you both agree with that? I think that developing the skill
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and pretty much dumped in a school, left to figure out a new language, figure out new friends, things like that, and integrate into a new environment. So it caused me to become very independent at a young age And I had to figure out what needed to ge
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...entrepreneurial. I always wanted to be at the heart of either starting businesses or being a part of their founding stories. And I remember when I went to Yale to study economics, I was still excited about that idea. I just didn't yet know fully how
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...for the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
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on some of your career in the intro, but I wanna ask a little bit more about your 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 wa
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And they had some successes and they had a lot of failures and I got to kind of see the journey up close and personal. So I experimented with a bunch of stuff. I had a bunch of small businesses when I was a very young kid. After college, I went into
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...or other entrepreneurial endeavors or trying to find your way into, like, some system, I think that that type of mentality is very important as a young Paul Paul Graham wrote this fabulous blog post called relentlessly resourceful, which is I think t
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You know, it's interesting. I knew I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Right? I tried to start some other businesses in the past. I had tried to start another hotel technology business also in the past, prior to business school, during business sc
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...that entrepreneurial instincts. You had a little bit of banking experience. You had a little bit of venture experience. How you're doing the cold call part of venture. Where do you take it from there? I left Bessemer, and I learned a tremendous amoun
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...early entrepreneurial bug. I'd continue I I I would go on, in to to start two other companies, as cofounders and got, introduced to the to the industry of venture capital from a college friend who, recognized my entrepreneurial spirit and was trying
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...entrepreneurial spirit has always been embedded in my system. That same entrepreneurial voyage for me continued when I got too old to be a, mangrove salesman. I started walking dogs. I sold a business card in one of our bathrooms that says Walking Jo
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...back on the entrepreneurial route again, it feels like another continuation of all my life points have just kinda led up to this. Yeah. It's such an interesting sort of eclectic background that you've been lucky to have, you know, from the public sid
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...background or not, it definitely helps, I think, to have very little to fall back on to give you some of that drive and that paranoia and desire to succeed. And so I think somewhere along the way, my parents ingrained that, you know, quite forcefully
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