20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture

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🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Arielle Zuckerberg, Partner @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Arielle Zuckerberg joined KPCB in 2015 and focuses on early-stage investments in the firm’s digital practice as part of the venture team. Arielle joined Kleiner from Humin, where she led product for the company’s mobile apps. She started her career as a product manager by day and Hackathon host by night at Wildfire Interactive, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2012. After the acquisition, Arielle worked as a product manager on social ads at Google. Outside of KPCB, Arielle has made several angel investments across the food tech and health sectors in the likes of Partender, Bitty Foods and The Ticket Fairy, just to name a few.

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In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Arielle made it into startups and the investing industry?

2.) What has the move been like from angel to VC? What theories and investment theses are adjustable? How doe the fiduciary responsibility to your LP's adjust your risk profile when investing?

3.) Questions from Tyler Willis: How does Arielle evaluate new products? How does Arielle learn and how does Ariele come down on the learning curve on new things so quickly (new investor to KPCB in ~2 years, for example).

4.) Arielle has now spent her first few months in venture, what have been the biggest surprises? Biggest challenges? What is Arielle's fave part and what is her least fave part?

5.) How does Arielle see the AI space now? Where does she see room for innovation? Is there anything Arielle is concerned about?

6.) Now when doing research for this interview I came across Arielle's New Years Resolution list from 2012! So what are your new years resolutions for 2016? What are the goals you are aiming for?

Items Mentioned In Today's Episode:

Arielle's Fave Book: The Symposium by Plato

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the 20 minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings calling from San Francisco State.
0:05.9	And joining me is Ariel Zuckerberg, partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caulfield and Buyers.
0:11.4	Now Ariel joined Kleiner in 2015 and focuses on early stage investments in the firm's digital practice as part of the venture team.
0:19.9	Ariel joined Kleiner from Hummin, where she led product for the company's digital practice as part of the venture team. Ariel joined Kleiner from Hummin, where she
0:22.4	led product for the company's mobile apps, and she started her career as a product manager by day
0:27.7	and hackathon hosts by night at Wildfire Interactive Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2012,
0:34.9	and following the acquisition, Ariel worked as a product manager on social ads at Google.
0:39.6	Outside of KPCB, Ariel has made several angel investments across the food tech and health
0:44.9	sectors in the likes of partenders, bitty foods, and the ticket fairy, just to name a few.
0:50.8	And I'd like to say a huge personal thank you to Ariel, not only for giving up her time to
0:54.7	appear on the show, but for being so supportive and generous of her time and advice towards me
0:59.8	with my own career, and for putting up with me while I've been in San Francisco. She very kindly
1:04.3	has hosted me and put up with my Anglicisms in very strange English ways, and I'm extremely
1:09.2	appreciative. And I'd also like to say a huge thank you to Mattermark for providing all the data for the show today,
1:15.1	and check out Mattermark search if you've not had a chance.
1:18.6	Absolutely the best way to get all the data and information on startups and investors across the industry.
1:24.0	However, back to the show, and without further ado, I'm delighted to welcome Ariel Zuckerberg,
1:29.7	partner at Kleiner Perkins, Corfield and Buyers.
1:37.3	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:41.9	Ariel, welcome to the 20 minute BC. It's an absolute pleasure to have you on the show stay.
1:46.7	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:48.3	We were so pleased when we saw on Twitter that you were a fan.
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