Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) - Strike the EQ/IQ Balance in Venture Capital

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures, describes the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) within venture capital and its implications on the business functions of companies. He shares scenarios where EQ sets the tone for open communication, helping to build a community of safety for their founders and investors.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.7	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:17.1	On today's episode, we've Puneet Agarwal, a partner at True Ventures, a firm that focuses on early stage startups.
0:26.1	Panette graduated from Stanford School of Engineering and was part of the Mayfield Fellows program.
0:31.2	Here's Puneet.
0:37.3	It is a huge honor to be here because Tom said I was basically you guys.
0:44.5	I was a student 20.
0:46.1	I was saying 20, but I guess it was 21 years ago.
0:50.4	You know, it was a lot different facilities, but it's really weird to kind of come full circle and actually present back to you.
0:58.2	So I'm super, super, super thrilled about it.
1:01.4	I'm going to talk about a topic that's near and dear to my heart and my partners at True Ventures Hearts, actually, about designing an EQ or emotionally intelligent driven venture
1:13.5	capital firm.
1:14.8	And I'll talk a lot about what that means.
1:16.5	But first, I just wanted to set a little context.
1:19.8	Tom did that.
1:20.8	Oops.
1:21.6	Tom did that earlier.
1:22.6	But this was, I don't know if Tom, if you recognize this, this was the Fortune magazine cover
1:27.0	where the Mayfield, so I was a Mayfield Fellow back in 1997.
1:32.3	Back then it was actually called TVC, and then it became Mayfield Fellows.
1:36.4	And that summer, July, I think, of 97, and we couldn't find the magazine.
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