Recode Decode: Jeremy Liew, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Lightspeed Venture Partners' Jeremy Liew talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about being a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley at a time when the Valley no longer represents most tech consumers. Liew argues that startup founders are popping up all over because they're now making products for Middle America and the third world, not just Palo Alto and Brooklyn. He also discusses working at AOL after the notorious Time Warner merger, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's crucial insights that enabled Snapchat's success, and why he's not too concerned about "four years of bad presidency." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:10.9	You may know me as the only person over 30 who understands Snapchat, but in my spare
0:14.7	time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's
0:19.0	key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:22.5	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode, and while you're there,
0:27.5	leave us a review.
0:29.0	Today in the red chair is Jeremy Liu, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who joined
0:34.1	the firm in 2006.
0:36.4	He's invested in companies like Snapchat, Giffy and the Honest Company.
0:40.6	Before becoming a venture capitalist, he spent three years at AOL and Netscape.
0:44.4	We have a lot to talk about there.
0:45.9	Jeremy, welcome to Recode Decode.
0:48.1	Thanks Cara.
0:49.1	So, let's start with your background.
0:50.6	I always like to know people's background.
0:52.1	I don't think people don't know what venture capitalists did before.
0:54.6	They were venture capitalists a lot of the time.
0:56.6	Tell me a little bit about how you got into tech.
0:59.4	I took a bit of a Secura's route.
1:01.6	I grew up in Australia and I went to study mathematics there in linguistics.
1:07.3	Then I joined McKinsey out of undergrad in Sydney and then when they opened an office
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