For our second guest, we had Jessica Li who recently left her role as an investor at Soma Capital to join Zageno in a growth marketing role. Jessica is the definition of an overachiever, and when she is not busy with her day job, she doubles as head of content at Elpha, is a top venture capital writer on Medium, and advises for a number of other startups and organizations.

In this episode, we get Jessica's thoughts on creating leverage as an investor through personal branding, why specialization is dying, and why she is leaving venture to join the operator side. 

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For our first guest, we had Mike MacCombie who works as the Director of Platform of ffVC. Mike is a self-proclaimed “community geek”, and within his role at ffVC, he focuses on accelerating the growth of portfolio companies, spending most of his time on business development, founder best practice advisement, hiring, and later stage fundraising. Outside of work, Mike acts as a mentor for Techstars NYC and Quake Capital, and he also authors the Investor G.A.N. Newsletter from ffVC.

In this talk, we ask Mike about:

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