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90: From Dropout to Raising 4 Million Dollars | Pei Li, Co-Founder of Venue
Pei Li dropped out of the University of Toronto to go full-time at Weathsimple, started a software consulting agency, and is now the co-founder of Venue.
We talk about growing up in a financially poor background, landing internships at IBM and Shopify, traveling in Asia, building software consulting agencycanva and much more.
SPONSORS
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Website: https://www.venue.live/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peicodes/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Growing up in a financially poor background
(4:23) - Landing internship at IBM, Shopify & Wealthsimple
(11:41) - First shot at building startup
(15:42) - Travelling & consulting
(24:05) - Joining Venue
(26:25) - Replacing in-person conferences
(30:00) - Venue's value proposition
(37:30) - Raising $4M
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
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Pei Li dropped out of the University of Toronto to go full-time at Weathsimple, started a software consulting agency, and is now the co-founder of Venue.
We talk about growing up in a financially poor background, landing internships at IBM and Shopify, traveling in Asia, building software consulting agencycanva and much more.
SPONSORS
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Website: https://www.venue.live/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peicodes/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Growing up in a financially poor background
(4:23) - Landing internship at IBM, Shopify & Wealthsimple
(11:41) - First shot at building startup
(15:42) - Travelling & consulting
(24:05) - Joining Venue
(26:25) - Replacing in-person conferences
(30:00) - Venue's value proposition
(37:30) - Raising $4M
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.