VSC Freestyle w/ LARRY YU
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Vijay: In terms of coming to the VC world, what skills—were there skills you wish you had walking in that door or—?
Larry: Yeah, tons. I mean I think—well, one, the obvious one is I felt like it was kind of dangerous on the financial—on understanding financial material side. You know, filings and what those filings mean and understanding like financial modeling, etc., I thought it was dangerous there, but that was definitely a gap. It’s definitely—if folks are interested in that, I mean just kind of understanding as far as a business goes, what are the levers that actually drive a business is kind of a good thing to know. I don’t think it’s critical, but I just think it’s interesting to know. And then I just don’t feel like my field of view in terms of understanding of a broad set of products was good enough, so that’s been a learning curve as well, you know. I can be dangerous in a lot of different areas because, you know, I’ve done—you know, been exposed to lots of different things. But like, AI, deep machine learning, our concepts are just—but I just wish I could go a level deeper sometimes.
Larry Yu is a Marketing Partner at Accel Partners, he formerly was the Director of Corporate Communications at Facebook and the Senior Manager for Product Communications at Google.
Vijay Chattha is the Founder and CEO of VSC and Wareness.io. What we do: strategic and creative approaches to brand building as an investor and marketing partner through VSC and Wareness.io
VSC - strategic communications and public relations agency - vscpr.com
Wareness.io - hardware marketing studio and seed investment fund
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