Recode Decode: Aileen Lee, managing partner, Cowboy Ventures

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Cowboy Ventures founder and managing partner Aileen Lee, previously a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about being one of the few female venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. After leaving Kleiner Perkins in 2012, Lee set out to amass data about the small percentage of startups that become breakout success stories, and she coined the term "unicorn" to describe the small fraction that would be valued at more than $1 billion. She says entrepreneurs today have to be tougher now that investors' fervor has cooled off, and says those investors will have to change, too, by becoming more diverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's sponsor is Casper, the online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
0:05.2	Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting Casper.com slash Recode and using the promo code Recode.
0:11.2	Terms and conditions apply.
0:14.2	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:21.2	I am Cara Swisher executive editor of Recode.
0:23.8	You may know me as the person coaching Donald Trump to focus on MySpace and Google Plus,
0:28.4	but in my spare time, I talk tech in your listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players,
0:34.6	big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:37.1	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode.
0:41.1	And while you're there, leave us a review.
0:43.4	Today in the red chair is Aileen Lee, who likes my joke about Donald Trump.
0:48.0	For nearly 13 years, she was a partner at venture capital firm,
0:52.0	Cliner Perkins, Coffeeield and Fires, one of the more famous in the Valley.
0:56.0	In 2012, she left to start her own firm, Cowboy Ventures, which is invested in companies like August Dollar Shave Club and even Phil's Coffee.
1:04.6	Aileen, welcome to the show.
1:06.5	Thank you.
1:07.2	I have known you a long time.
1:08.6	Where do we meet?
1:09.2	I don't even know.
1:10.2	Where do we meet?
1:11.3	I don't know.
1:11.9	It's a bar of probably three AM, drinking away.
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