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20VC: The Secret to Negotiating; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | Why Everything You Know About Hiring is Wrong; Domain Knowledge and Past Experience are Dangerous | The Next 10 Years for Fintech; Winners, Losers and Crypto with Jackie Reses, CEO @ Lea

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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How I Built Alibaba's Zero Leverage Business

Jackie Smith: I went on a singular mission to get equity back. She says she spent every other week in China for several years working with the Alibaba team. "It was an unusual career experience and an unusual insider's view," he says of his time at Yahoo. What do you think is the worst deal you've done? Smith: In the last year, I've made some pretty disastrous trades.

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