Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

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Welcome everyone to the final of three special live ETL episodes.

We're presenting this summer before we kick off the fall quarter in late

September. I'm Chuck Heasley, an associate professor in Stanford's Department of Management Science

and Engineering and faculty member at STVP. And today, I'm excited to be joined by Flukas Ventures

founder and general partner, Ashley Flukas. Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, Flukas Ventures founder and general partner Ashley Flukas.

Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, Flukas Ventures is a syndicate of around 2,000 angel investors and has invested in more than 200 startups.

Ashley also serves as a partner at Jupiter, a Florida-based real estate finance fund with $3 billion in assets under management.

And she's a graduate of Duke University in Harvard Law School.

I stumbled across Ashley's syndicate initially on Angel List and saw she was a fellow

Duke alum and then also attended that school in Boston up the river from MIT.

I was quickly impressed by the depth of her due diligence

and the thoughtfulness of her investment memos

on startups as well as her advocacy

for historically underrepresented groups in tech.

So I'm very excited to chat with her here on ETL.

Welcome, Ashley.

Thank you, thank you.

So you started out as a lawyer in the real estate business in Florida, and now you're leading a syndicate that has more than 200 startup investments.

Can you explain briefly how you got interested in investing in early stage companies and

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