Navigating Fundraising Challenges and Identifying Passionate Founders

Elicia McDonald is a partner at Airtree Ventures, one of the leading VC funds in Australia (where Sachin used to work). Airtree has invested in many unicorns including Canva, Pet Circle, Immutable, Employment Hero and Linktree. There's a lot to admire about Elicia. She's hyper intelligent, analytical, emotionally intelligent, focuses on the work and has a sharp awareness of what's really important in life. We talk to Elicia about drivers, the effect of her mums sickness, learning sales as a VC, personality traits and much more.

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