CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups.

The firm has invested in more than 600 startups including Airtable, Dordash, and Vrcell.

James Green is a general partner at CRV where he is known for investing in startups focused on security, infrastructure, and financial services.

He joins the show to talk about his path into tech,

CRV, life as a VC, and more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist and is the founder

and CTO of MailPass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance,

and general software engineering companies.

He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at

Vand.hk.

Hi, Jay. Hi James, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Hi, good to see you. How are you doing? Yeah, I am good. It's great to have you here. You are at the VC Outfit CRV, which is pretty exciting for us to have a VC speaking to us today.

We don't often get to do that.

We just kind of hear about it.

Extremely privileged.

Most people are extremely deep in the weeds.

And here's just me being a fake technical user.

No, no.

I mean, this is we all know in technology the amount of technology that's only been possible because of VC. So I think that's why it's exciting to get to talk to the people that

are ultimately backing some of the moonshot projects as well as the ones that were sort of in theory

obvious. So I think maybe kind of the first question is what was actually your path to becoming a VC?

You know, many people don't maybe think that VC's sort of had a life before VC.

So what's kind of your path to CRV in total?

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