Adapting to Change: Fundraising Challenges and Talent Acquisition in Startups

Maha Ibrahim of Canaan joins Molly to discuss her early days in VC (1:38), managing distributions and exiting at the right time (20:36), the clean tech bubble, being a generalist/specialist, diversity, and more (37:42).

(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(1:38) Maha’s first years in venture

(11:18) LinkedIn Jobs - Go to https://linkedIn.com/angel and post your first job for free.

(12:43) Investing in the early 2000s and Canaan’s strategy

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(20:36) Exiting at the right time and distributing earnings

(30:00) Learning from a downturn

(34:58) The mismatch between VCs to outlier startups

(36:11) Prenuvo - Get $300 off at http://prenuvo.com/twist

(37:42) The climate tech bubble

(40:14) Generalists vs. specialists

(42:16) Responding to cycles and signs of good timing

(48:53) Structuring a generational off-ramp

(51:39) All Raise

(55:30) What does the future hold?

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