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#6 → Shawn Xu: Globetrotting and Gaining Perspective (part 2)


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Among other topics, in the second part of this conversation we touch on mentors, college entrepreneurship and getting a foothold in venture.

If you're building something (especially if it's in the elder care space), check out Mike Maples Jr.'s podcast — https://greatness.floodgate.com/ — and slide in Shawn's DMs! Twitter linked below...


[0:31]: Shawn's take on the landscape of college entrepreneurship

[3:38]: How he thinks about cultivating an "information diet"

[8:15]: Learning under the legendary Ann Miura-Ko and Mike Maples Jr. at Floodgate

[14:47]: The acute impact Eric Liu and Jack Dorsey have had on Shawn's life

[17:25]: An author and podcast recommendation


Worth website - worth.carrd.co

On college entrepreneurship - https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/how-students-are-founding-funding-and-joining-startups/

Advice for breaking into venture - https://medium.com/startup-grind/9-essential-lessons-that-helped-me-break-into-vc-fb05d2bd058

Shawn's Twitter - https://twitter.com/shawnxu

Book recommendations - https://www.notion.so/book-podcast-recommendations-59abba1db1db4fc2b9b9a4e08edb0b24

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