Serendipity, paying it forward, building relationships for life and straight talk sums up this corporate honcho turned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist's journey so far. In conversation with Anuj Jain, CEO & Co-Founder of Startup-O, South East Asia's leading assessment, investment and business scaling platform. In this episode, we talk about:
- A deep sense of community and building relationships,
- Being open to opportunities and pivoting in your career,
- Venture capital as an asset class and the opaqueness in investing,
- Creating a data-driven, multi-rater, bias eliminating algorithm led platform for venture investing and building an entrepreneur for entrepreneur eco-system,
- Why it takes a village to raise a "startup"
- Surviving SARS as an entrepreneur and COVID-19 impact on SMEs and startup founders,
- Future of work and advice for startup founders raising capital in these times