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Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst) - Build, Don’t Break

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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How Did You Become a Venture Capitalist?

In the late nineties, it was this unbelievable time where on campus all these faculty and students were starting to a, build businesses with the rival te internet. I used to joke, my life's a bit of a greedy algaritm, so im jut going to go participate in it. One day i was an academic, and the next day i was trying to figure out what it mean to actually start a company. Andn we sold that business, which was in the mobile imperstructure arena. At that point, general catalus was just starting, and they invited me in to be in ontropon residente. So i actually never really thought i was going to

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