Kathryn Gould (Foundation Capital) - Figure Out What's Important

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Kathryn Gould, one of the first women venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, shares what she's learned after many years of picking successful startups and forging her own career path. In conversation with tech-industry author and journalist Mike Malone, the co-founder of Foundation Capital tells entrepreneurs to identify a true target customer and market opportunity, and be prepared to give 100 percent.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	...is my honor and privilege to introduce both Catherine Gould and Mike Malone to you today.
0:25.9	So let me start with Catherine.
0:28.5	Catherine has an amazing bio.
0:30.1	She was the founder of VC firm Foundation Capital in 1995, a firm well known for consumer
0:35.6	investments such as Netflix and Lending Club, where she focused on B2B technology companies.
0:41.4	She was selected for the Midas list based on her investments in companies like Grand Junction Networks, Documentum, and Interwoven.
0:48.6	Her lifetime IRA in the VC business is 90%.
0:53.0	Let me tell you that is an astounding number. And her average
0:57.0	investment returned 8x. That is also an astounding number. Foundation capital has several
1:02.6	billion under management, starting from the first fund of 75 million. Before Foundation, Catherine
1:07.9	was a general partner in another firm and was the original marketing VP at Oracle in the early 1980s.
1:13.8	Since retiring from Foundation Capital in 2006,
1:16.9	she's helped three micro VC firms raise money and get started.
1:20.4	Some firms I think that are familiar to many of you in the room.
1:25.1	Floodgate, Pedgeman Marr, and most recently, engineering capital.
1:28.7	She continues to coach and invest time and money in these firms.
1:32.2	In 2009, she started Battle Mountain Vineyard, where she and her husband make premium
1:36.9	cabernet wine.
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