Hello and welcome.

I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members

to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

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In this episode, Jonathan Kroll, partner of Rare Breed VC Fund, shares his winding path

coming out of UC Santa Barbara. From teaching himself how to code to launching two startups

at a school to attending Cornell's Johnson School of

Management for his MBA many years later, Jonathan explains how he successfully pivoted to venture

capital by landing an internship with Andresen Horowitz in their market development group. Enjoy.

Jonathan, thanks so much for taking the time.

Thanks, Patrick.

Great to be here.

So it would be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

So I'm Jonathan Kroll.

I'm a partner at Rare Breed Ventures.

We're at $10 million pre-seed and seed fund.

We're on our first fund.

I'm currently raising fund too, which should hopefully be significantly larger.

Before that, I was at a fund called Sparrow Ventures, which is a single LP fund based in Silicon Valley,

backed by PRMidiR.

And then prior to that, I was at Andrews and Horowitz on an operating team and then kind of moved a bit horizontally.

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