You're listening to the fourth episode of the 20 Minute VC with Harry Stebbings. On today's show,

I'm hugely excited to welcome to you, David Hornyck. Now, it's hard to find an introduction that

fully justifies David's incredible career in the technology industry. But he's been in startup industry

for 20 years, starting his career in the legal profession, and in 2000, he moved

to August Capital. His current board affiliations include blippy, gravity, stumble upon, Splunk,

rocket lawyer, just to name a few. If that wasn't enough, David created the first ever

venture capital blog, venture blog, and he also lectures at

Harvard Law School, where he teaches entrepreneurship and venture capital.

But before we jump into the interview, don't forget about the competition to win all the

books mentioned in the first 10 episodes of this podcast and a consultation with one of the VCs where they will

deep dive into your business plan, pitch, company, presentation and answer all the questions

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and then email Harry at the 20 minute VC.com with the name that you left

the review under. Good luck and enjoy the episode.

You have now arrived at your destination.

David, welcome to the 20 minute VC. It's an absolute privilege to have you here.

Thanks so much for having me. Now, can you tell our listeners a little bit about your

background and how you ended up becoming a VC? Yeah, it was not exactly a straight path. The closest

I can say for my, you know, for the precursor to venture capital is that I grew up in a house that always had computers very early on my father was one of one of the early computer scientists in the Boston area but I was kind of a musician and you know a lawyer. I got a degree in computer music,

a degree in criminology, and ended up in law school. I was a litigator for a while.

But eventually in the late 90s, I ended up back in Silicon Valley where I had gone to college

at Stanford. And in particular, I was out here because some of

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