This week, Cory speaks to innovator and venture capitalist Wesley Chan. Wesley is the Managing Director and General Partner at Felicis Ventures, an early to late venture capital firm that has funded hundred of startups in 40 countries with nine $1 billion dollar plus exits in the past seven years which include Ring, Rovio, Twitch, Fitbit, Shopify and more.
Before Felicis, Wesley was a Google veteran who founded Google Analytics, Google Voice and holds 16 US patents for his contributions to building Google's early advertising system. In this week's episode, Wesley talks about the early days of Google, lessons learned, advice on being on the board of a startup, his investment in Ring, and how to get quality deal flow.