Who’s the next great startup founder? Venture capitalists want to know.
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4.8 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Kyle Rosdahl. |
| 0:05.5 | Thanks for downloading the Corner Office podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Brand new episode for you today. |
| 0:09.0 | This time we're talking about venture capital and, in essence, why we ought to care about it. |
| 0:13.5 | You could say venture capitalists sit along the CEO supply chain by giving people with ideas of the resources that they need to start their companies. |
| 0:20.6 | Ann Murakow is our guest today. |
| 0:22.3 | She's the co-founding partner at a venture capital company up in Silicon Valley called |
| 0:25.8 | Floodgate. |
| 0:26.8 | She was also, and for the record, an early investor in Lyft, TaskRabbit, Refinery 29, and ModCloth. |
| 0:32.7 | Here you go. |
| 0:34.2 | We're expecting you. |
| 0:35.6 | Won't you have a seat? |
| 0:36.7 | Ready to go to work. |
| 0:38.5 | And Murakot, welcome to the program. |
| 0:40.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:41.4 | Give me the origin story, would you, of you as a venture capitalist? |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah, so I fell into venture capital actually twice and fell into it as probably the right way to talk about it. |
| 0:50.8 | The first time I just happened to meet a venture capitalist by the name of |
| 0:55.8 | Ted Dinter Smith from Charles River Ventures. And at that point, I was looking for a job. And this was, |
| 1:02.8 | you know, at the crash of the economy in 2001. And I happened to meet this guy and we were talking |
| 1:10.0 | about an analyst position. |
| 1:12.6 | And he interviewed me but didn't talk about technology at all. |
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