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and then Box after that before and after the IPR had invested in Box when I was at Salesforce, which kind of prepared me for venture in many ways. But venture was not the end state. It wasn't the goal. I actually didn't know what I wanted to do. Ever
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Can you tell us a little bit more about that journey and the decision to pursue VC? Sure. So I when I started my career, I felt really strongly that I wanted to try a few things before really deciding which career path I wanted to pursue. That's advi
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And as I went through different areas of my career, I started to learn about investing at a high level and with different types of of instruments. And I learned about the different industries, private equity, investment banking, all these different v
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And so with that in mind, I knew that, investment banking probably at least at the leverage finance side wasn't necessarily a long term home for me. And I started thinking more about venture as a career at that point because it gives you so much expo
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And the one interesting thing about VC is there's no archetype of an ideal VC. You come from a variety of different paths. And I actually started my career post college. I went to Cal, and I started my career in the, I jokingly say, the dark world of
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believe we have something that is so special and it is so unique. And the big difference between us and every other venture capitalist is that we create the supply of investments. We don't compete with any other investor at the point where we're inve
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“From failed founder to VC partner: why failure accelerated her venture career”
...be a founder and launch a company. And that, I think, expedited my entry into venture capital because I obviously built a company and failed at it. It wasn't an amazing outcome. But what I'd really le
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...your cofounder that that makes the idea so exciting and unique. So how does that work? I mean, are you is it like a talent agent that sees the next supermodel at a at a Target? Or are you taking applications? How does this work? We do a bit of both.
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gave me the confidence to finally kinda go off the deep end and and try to do this. And when you start, you just don't know unless you've started a fund before, like, a startup. Like, the first time, it's always you just don't know what to expect, an
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if you look at kind of traditional OEMs, you know, we're now in Europe and in North America are coming up against some very stiff competition from, you know, from China, from Vietnam. Tesla has been a, you know, a great, you know, homegrown example i
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...founder. The earliest investor will come in with the most similar cost basis to the founder and end up being aligned with them in a lot of ways. A growth investor wants to put structure on around. We'll fight it as hard as the founder will. Should th
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...same extent as a founder would. But the best investors, I think, are the ones that actually, you know, do dive in and don't just ask, you know, what numbers are every quarter. And so venture allows this really unique ability to both scratch a little
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And then I ended up joining my old investors. So it's a very, you know, windy path to venture and start ups that just came from just pulling at threads and meeting the right people and just loving the people that I work with. So one of the things I l
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doing really hard things, and that just sort of the perfect mixture of that as a profession, that with my personality, and also just the interest in investing. Venture capital was just the perfect place for me. Absolutely. So when you decided that, o
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...founder. We knew the people who used to work with the founder. It was an intake call, then they talked to a few of the other partners, then we had them talk to other people who are industry experts. One of the industry experts ended up wanting to inv
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had the opportunity to go to work in a factory, in a factory accounting department. So even in my very first role, I was very used to working on the periphery of a large organization. And if I look back at the roles that I've really enjoyed doing and
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...us as founders, why they will be great for us, why you should take their capital, I start to have this realization, oh, wow. This is actually how they're talking about themselves. This is why they should take their money from these big logos and all
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...investor for founders because I have an entrepreneurial passion of building something and not just an abstract investor. I think it's what investors don't anticipate though when they spin out. Like, the firm build aspect is 50% of my day or more, and
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