This Week in Startups - Video

Every day, Jason Calacanis and Molly Wood cover startups, technology, markets, media, crypto, and the all the hottest topics in business and tech. They also interview the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors and innovators.

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E988: Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner of Cowboy Ventures, pioneered actionable change to diversify tech & VC, shares early days innovating in e-commerce, insights on current funding landscape, dangers of prioritized growth over sustainability, & le


0:51 Jason intros Aileen Lee
1:36 Aileen on her time at MIT, early bias against women in math
5:56 What brought Aileen to San Francisco & working at GAP in the early days of the Internet
9:40 Aileen on working for Mary Meeker & what makes her special
10:25 “All companies that leverage technology are not the same.”
13:10 What made WeWork attractive to investors in the early days?
17:54 How the market is skewed to reward growth
22:35 Thoughts on SoftBank increasing valuations
28:24 How Aileen got involved with Dollar Shave Club
31:07 Jason’s experience with Dollar Shave Club
32:07 “Crushing it” culture in tech
35:12 Aileen’s history at Kleiner Perkins
36:27 Being a woman in VC in the 2000s
41:12 Starting Cowboy Ventures
43:46 Diversity in tech
48:38 What are they working on at All Raise?


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 October 15, 2019  53m