Hello and welcome back to Equity a podcast about the business of startups

where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Mary Ann

Asavado and this is our interview show where we sit down with a guest, think

about their work and unpack the rest.

Today we're talking to Jenny Fielding, co-founder and managing partner at Everywhere Ventures,

about startups flight to quality in 2024, how smaller firms are competing with larger firms in this current

investment landscape, and we'll also dig into the great VC resignation, so stay

through to the end for that. Jenny, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.

Really looking forward to this.

Yeah, me too.

I'm really excited.

I've enjoyed reading your posts on X over the past year or so.

They're just refreshingly candid and authentic, and we just thought you'd make a great

guest that would have a lot of valuable insights for our founders listening to the

show and just listeners in general so first of all you started everywhere of you see in January of 2018, but prior to that you worked as a

managing director for Tech Starks for about seven years and you also founded several

companies. Can you share a little bit more about your background

before we dig into your current work load, I guess?

Yeah.

I actually call myself an accidental entrepreneur

because I started very traditionally. so I went to law school I worked in finance and then I had an idea for a company I hesitate to even call it a startup because I was just trying to you know solve a problem I saw in the world right it was a

personal problem that I had and so nights and weekends while I was working at you know a big bank

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