Recode Decode: Haystack founder Semil Shah

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Haystack founder and Lightspeed Ventures venture partner Semil Shah talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about breaking into the VC world and how the industry is changing. In this episode:03:45 - How Shah got involved with tech07:57 - How hard should it be to get a VC job?16:10 - Misconceptions about venture capital21:33 - What exactly is a “venture partner?”26:08 - How important is luck to being a good VC?31:32 - Being a lone wolf and breaking in36:07 - Doing deals outside Silicon Valley46:31 - SoftBank49:41 - Venture capital in 2038 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Unisys.
0:04.0	Sometimes you'll hear people say,
0:05.5	get your head out of the clouds.
0:07.0	Well, Unisys disagrees.
0:09.0	They say, keep your head in the clouds.
0:11.0	Keep dreaming and keep breaking through
0:14.0	by getting your business to the best cloud you can.
0:17.0	Unisys offers app modernization that helps companies move their apps to the cloud,
0:21.0	build new cloud native apps, and unlock powerful insights and performance.
0:25.0	With Unisys Cloud Solutions, the sky is not the limit.
0:29.0	It's just the beginning of unlimited potential.
0:32.0	It's the place where one breakthrough leads to another.
0:35.0	Unisys, keep breaking through.
1:00.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large at Recode.
1:04.0	You may know me as someone who said she would listen to your podcast,
1:07.0	but really, I didn't.
1:08.0	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode decode
1:11.0	from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:13.0	Today, I'm passing the microphone to Recode Senior Finance Editor, Teddy Schliefer.
1:17.0	He interviewed Venture Capitalist, Semile Shaw,
1:20.0	the founder and general partner of Haystack.
1:22.0	Take it away, Teddy.
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