Allison Baum Gates from SemperVirens on how to break into venture, her belief in an ecosystem model of investing, and how to make your network work for you
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📣 HAPPY 2024! We’re kicking off the first Beyond the Cap Table episode of the year with Jennifer Neundorfer chatting with Allison Baum Gates, General Partner at early-stage venture capital fund SemperVirens and author of Breaking Into Venture: An Outsider Turned Venture Capitalist Shares How to Take Risks, Create Power, and Build Life-Changing Wealth.
Currently based in New York, Allison has lived and worked in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. She invests in technology transforming workforce, healthcare and financial services and previously worked on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs and co-founded Fresco Capital, a global seed fund. She was also an investor at Trinity Ventures.
In this episode, we touch on:
💡 The moment Allison realized she wanted to be a disruptor, not the disrupted
📘 Key lessons from her book Breaking Into Venture, which was informed by her own experience starting from scratch in the industry
❤️Why 'leaning out' out of networks that don't work for you can be the answer to finding your way in a network-driven ecosystem
🎤 …and so much more.
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To learn more about Allison, click here.
Catch up on Season Two:
Jen has been joined by experts for riveting conversations on the state of and how to impact the future of venture. See below for highlights and links to listen!
Priyanka Jain from Evvy (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Jeremiah Gordon from CapitalG (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Mariela Salas from SomosVC (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Roxanne Petraeus of Ethena (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Shannon O’Leary from the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Sonia Kastner of Pano AI (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
Claude Grunitzky from Equity Alliance (Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
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