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20 VC 002: How to become a VC with Kris Jones

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

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How I Got Started in the Venture Capital World

Harry Robbins: I've been what I call an accidental entrepreneur. He says he became enamored of how the internet was going to change the way we do things in late 1998-99. That laid the seed for a company called Pepper Jam which it grew out of a gourmet food business that we took online in 1999. In 2009, when GSI Commerce came in they were a publicly traded company and then within short order we were acquired by eBay.

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