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The Importance of Mentorship in Venture

Jim Breyer: I was lucky to get the job at Excel because I didn't have much background. He says he worked 100 hours a week and did everything he could, took too many meetings. The shaping environment of Excel from 1996 when he left was defined in his memory as mentorship for venture. "If you go in with the mindset that I'm being apprentice on the young grasshopper, I think you learn bad habits"

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