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Skate Where the Puck is Going

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. That’s called product leadership.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I was mostly pitching white male VCs.