Stanford E-Corner presents the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series. On today's episode, we

have Yuri Kim, a general partner at Forerunner Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.

Since joining the firm in 2012, Yuri has supported investments in over 30 early-stage startups.

Her passion for entrepreneurship inspired the launch of an artisanal

leather goods brand, and she serves on the founding team of a luxury brand incubator.

She also earned her MBA at Wharton. Here's Yuri.

I want to start with a little bit of context of who I am and why I'm up here talking to you today.

I, as Tina mentioned, I'm a general partner at Foreunner Ventures.

We are early stage investors in the most transformative companies that are redefining the consumer landscape today.

And our mission is really to be the partner of choice to the most ambitious founders that are tackling big problems,

looking for big solutions in our category. So that's our mission, that's what we do all day, every day.

Since kicking off the firm in 2010, we have, I hope, earned the reputation

of being the best in class investors in our space. We have a few metrics here that I'll share.

We have $300 million under management. We've got about 50 active investments in our portfolio.

We have a team, a mighty but small team of eight. And the line of billion dollars, it's

a billion dollars of portfolio revenue in 2017. That's all the revenue generated by our

companies, which are very young, so this is pretty exciting. A billion dollars or more of secured follow-on funding in all of their follow-on rounds,

and then our first investment in our first fund sold for a billion dollars. It was Dollar

Shave Club to Unilever in June of 2016. So that was extremely exciting and a big milestone

for us and for our

companies. So a little bit of context about our fund, which I think is kind of fun, it's rare to

see a new venture fund come to light. And so with us, each fund that we have had and raised

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