1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Lu Zhang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund. In 2017, Lu was awarded the Forbes 30 Under 30 as a Featured Honoree in the VC category. In the same year, she was selected as Town & Country 50 New Modern Swans. Recently, Lu was awarded as the Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Davos. Prior to starting Fusion Fund, Lu was the Founder and CEO of a medical device company for the early diagnosis of Type II diabetes (acq 2012). She is an advisor and mentor to several innovative programs and incubators in Silicon Valley. She also serves as a youth member of a council of the Future Award. Lu received her M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	My new book, How to Be a Capitalist, without any capital is out.
0:03.7	You can get it at Capitalistbook.com.
0:05.8	Here's what Nicholas said on March 6th on Amazon.
0:09.2	Incredibly incisive, useful, and sensible.
0:12.0	The author is not greedy and is, in fact, extremely generous and does not hold back on the
0:16.2	knowledge he imparts.
0:17.5	I've barely made it halfway to the book, and I'm already gushing over the book because
0:20.9	it's an absolute gem. Nathan gets to the point quick shows proof and best of all shows you not just
0:26.2	what to do but how to do it in explicit detail. To say the book is actionable is an understatement.
0:32.2	Now you guys that listen to the podcast know I'm detail oriented so that review might not surprise
0:36.2	you but I hope you grab the book.
0:40.9	It's now a Wall Street Journal, instant national bestseller.
0:43.2	Grab it at capitalistbook.com.
0:44.5	Audible version is available too.
0:49.2	Got a lot of experience in industry, had our own exit operating, our own company,
0:53.0	then said, you know what, I'm going to go try this myself, raised a $17 million fund one,
0:55.0	about a year and a half, two years ago, had a lot of success deploying that capital, then raised another fund, $90 million as she
0:58.9	looks at scaling that.
1:00.0	Her biggest success, Grub Market, again, gotten to that company, and now on paper, that's
1:04.0	grown over almost 100x, just that position alone.
1:07.3	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
1:18.3	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nathan Latka, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nathan Latka and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.