20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
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🗓️ 18 February 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Clark Landry is Founder and Chairman at Shift, the leading social advertising network for brands. He is also Executive Chairman of GraphEffect, a prominent social media marketing firm. In recent years Clark has made his foray into the investing industry with investments in the likes of AngelList and Lettuce. In his short time investing in startups, Clark has achieved an incredible 10 exits.
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In today's episode you will learn:
- How Clark made his entry into the world of tech and what caused his transition into angel investing?
- The most valuable insight Clark has learnt from being both a Founder and an Investor?
- How does Clark pick which startups to back, does he focus on any particular aspects of the company?
- What sector Clark is most excited about and why?
- How can someone make an entry into the tech startup world without having any coding ability?
We then finish the interview by hearing Clark's thoughts the effectiveness of tech accelerators, his most recent investment and his favourite book.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 12th episode of the 20 minute VC. You're here with Harry Stebbings, |
| 0:05.7 | and on today's show we have Clark Landry. Clark is founder and chairman at Shift Platform, |
| 0:13.1 | the leading social advertising network for brands. He is also executive chairman of Graph Effect, |
| 0:18.4 | a prominent social media marketing firm. If that wasn't enough, |
| 0:21.6 | Clark has made his foray into the investing industry, with investments in the likes of Angel List and Lettis. |
| 0:27.6 | In his short time investing in startups, Clark has achieved an incredible 10 exits. |
| 0:32.6 | It's time to hand over to the amazing Clark Landry. |
| 0:35.6 | Three, two, one, zero. |
| 0:41.7 | You have now arrived at your destination. |
| 0:45.0 | First, I'm really curious about how you got into the technology industry |
| 0:48.9 | and later made your transition into angel investing. |
| 0:51.8 | I joined Iwin, I want to say, in December of 1999 as a manager of business development, |
| 0:59.0 | which didn't really mean much of anything. |
| 1:02.9 | Basically, was part of the crew over there, actually mostly younger kind of ex- banking analysts and consultants, just brought on to do a variety of things. |
| 1:18.3 | After about a month, I was approached by my boss at the time, and he said, Clark, you're now a media buyer. |
| 1:25.3 | Wow. |
| 1:25.5 | I said, that's funny. |
| 1:26.1 | I don't know anything about media buying. |
| 1:29.5 | He said, I know, but we need a media buyer, and I think you'll be able to learn it. |
| 1:36.2 | You know, we've got a substantial budget that we have to spend. |
| 1:39.5 | You're going to make mistakes, but I want you to be an expert in this thing, you know, |
| 1:43.8 | within a couple |
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