VCSS: Year in review + Valerie Shen of G2 Venture Partners | E1641
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Molly and Jason celebrate the last VCSS of 2022 by reflecting on what Molly has learned over this past year. (1:24) Then Valerie Shen of G2 Venture Partners joins Molly for the final TWiCS of the year. (36:38)
(0:00) J+M Kick off the show
(1:23) Molly reflects on her first year as a VC
(10:58) MicroAcquire - Sell your business with no fees at https://try.microacquire.com/twist
(12:29) The founder/VC relationship
(18:30) Learning how to be a VC in a downturn
(20:13) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist
(28:05) The art of patience + getting to 100 meetings
(30:34) Top VCSS episodes of 2022
(36:38) Valerie Shen joins Molly for TWiCS
(40:43) The history of G2 Venture Partners and Valerie’s role
(51:38) Climate Tech is becoming more popular
(1:01:28) Investable climate tech solutions
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, welcome to the final Sunday edition of this week in startups for 2022. |
| 0:04.6 | And we thought it would be an interesting thing to do for the VC Sunday schools segment. |
| 0:09.5 | Tav Molly talk about her first year as a venture capitalist. Yeah, it happened. |
| 0:15.8 | We, of course, also at thing that was pioneered as part of my first year here at lunch this week |
| 0:21.3 | in climate startups. So we have one last interview for you. And I'm excited because it's one of the |
| 0:25.4 | big dogs, like one of the OGs of climate tech investing, G2 venture partners, which of course |
| 0:32.1 | was a spin out from Kleiner's billion dollar green growth fund. And of course, John Doerr being |
| 0:38.6 | one of the pioneers of this space. So it's really like kind of a perfect way to end this week in |
| 0:44.4 | climate startup. Perfect book end. Yes. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Gonna be a great show. Stick with us. |
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| 1:18.0 | your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com slash twist. All right, Molly. |
| 1:24.6 | BC Sunday school is coming to an end. You're one. You're finished your freshman year. And you're |
| 1:30.0 | going to be a sophomore next year, sophomore year coming up. How was your freshman year? I gained 15 |
| 1:35.2 | pounds. I partied so hard. I ran up tons of credit card dead. I failed them. I told you to stay |
| 1:41.6 | I told you stay away from the waffle station in the cafeteria. He did. He was like never go to |
| 1:45.9 | the buffet, but did I listen? No, no. Yeah, we thought we could do a fun BC Sunday school kind of |
| 1:52.8 | learnings and surprises. And then also asked our producers to gather some of the favorites because |
| 1:59.2 | our audience has loved this segment. I have been so surprised by how many founder meetings I've |
| 2:04.4 | taken where they've referenced it. Talked about learnings from it. Yeah, so I think it's not |
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