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S2 Ep 5 | Dave Lu, Co-Founder at Pared and Managing Partner at Hyphen Capital, on Building Your Own House

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Dave Lu is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hyphen Capital, a syndicate that invests in pre-seed companies founded by Asian Americans. He is also a seasoned operator (ex Yahoo, eBay, Cisco) and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Pared (staffing marketplace for the restaurant industry) and FanPop (bootstrapped entertainment website with 35M+ monthly visitors). Dave is a steadfast advocate of Asian American entrepreneurship and recently rallied the community around an initiative to publish an open letter in the WSJ in response to an uptick in violence against the AAPI community.

In this episode we spoke with Dave about the following:

  • Conflating what he thought his parents wanted for his career with what he truly wanted, and how he broke out of that thinking to start his own company
  • Why it’s crucial for Asian American leaders to advocate for themselves and “have more swag”
  • Encouraging the next generation of AAPI entrepreneurs to overcome the bamboo ceiling by building their own houses

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    Episode resources:

    • Hyphen Capital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyphencap/
    • Dave's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davelu/
    • The $10M commitment to support AAPI organizations: https://www.kqed.org/news/11867492/thousands-of-business-leaders-commit-10m-to-aapi-organizations-fighting-racism

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