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The Startup Playbook Podcast
Insights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors
My guest for Ep188 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Jessy Wu.
Jessy is a partner of AfterWork Ventures, a $20M pre-seed and seed stage Venture Capital Fund.
She has a background in English literature and linguistics and has used her power of storytelling to build a powerful brand not just for herself but also for AfterWork VC, allowing them to compete for deals against large incumbents.
In this episode we covered a variety of topics including:
Jessy’s background in linguistics and philosophy and how she applies that to investing today
The value of building a personal brand, and the strategy she’s used to build her own
How to build a challenger brand that competes against large incumbents
and much more!
Timestamps
1:37 Jessy’s background
15:50 Core tenets of storytelling and character development when writing
21:02 Strategies for building a professional personal brand
29:01 Building a challenger brand in VC
38:07 Dealing with the negatives and criticism that can come from creating content
42:27 Building a community powered VC
52:05 Insight into the investment decision making process for AfterWork and other funds
58:52 Grapevine: an initiative bringing awareness and pragmatic discourse around abuses of power in the tech ecosystem
Our partners
A big thank you to Fab Mackojc, Daniel Wang and Mike Forster for their help with this interview!
Also a big shout out to our partners for the show:
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