Mentorcam March - Max Samuel

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: How VC's see your startup Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He formerly worked at Thiel Capital, Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse. A graduate of Yale, Penn Law School and Wharton, Max is passionate about mentoring both startup founders and people looking to break into the VC industry. Questions: What is different about early stage VC vs. just VC? How do venture capital firms evaluate startups? What's important at the early stage? What should a pitch deck include? How do you start a career in venture capital? If you were just starting again, what would you do different? Book a call with Max by accessing the link below: https://mentor.cam/maxsamuel - Use Promo Code CODE Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello listeners. We're kicking off another episode with our friends over at MentorCam.
0:06.8	As a reminder, Mentor Cam gives you access to high-profile advisors and experts for one-on-one
0:12.5	advice. For more information, go to codstory.co-slash-M-T-O-R-C-A-m to learn more use the discount code code c-o-d-e all one word to get 20% off your
0:27.7	first mentorship session well today i have another special guest on the code story podcast max
0:34.2	samuel he's a venture capitalist and a lawyer. He had an extensive career, has an
0:39.4	extensive career in the VC space, including with Teal Capital and currently with Snow Ventures.
0:45.1	He's passionate about mentoring startup founders and people looking to break into VC. Max,
0:49.9	thank you for being on the show today. Thanks, though. Great to be here. Well, before we jump into
0:54.7	all things VC and how VC's view startups is kind of our topic for today. Tell me a little bit about you.
1:03.3	So I am originally from the U.S., originally from Philadelphia, live now in Norway. My sort of journey
1:09.2	getting here started after college, I moved to New York
1:12.5	and worked at Credit Suisse for a bit of time. You know, that was 2008, 2009. So sort of a tough time
1:18.8	to be on the equity capital markets desk. So made a transition and decided to go to law school,
1:24.8	moved back actually to my hometown, Philadelphia, and went to law
1:29.0	school there and did sort of a joint program with the business school and spent a lot of time
1:33.5	focusing on entrepreneurship and venture capital from those two perspectives. And then after graduating,
1:39.9	moved out west and joined a law firm called Wilson Sincini based in Palo Alto, where I was working
1:46.8	very closely with really early stage startups, you know, about as early as it gets a couple
1:51.8	folks with an idea and sort of, you know, where do we go next all the way up? And the firm is
1:57.7	a pretty large law firm and works with some also big public companies as well.
2:02.9	So kind of seeing the whole life cycle of a startup growing into and maturing into a big global corporation.
2:10.5	Really enjoyed it.
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