Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed The State of Diversity within FinTech & VC, Eileen Burbidge, Founding Partner Passion Capital
Eileen Burbidge is the founding partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund that has backed FinTech giants including the likes of Monzo, Tide and GoCardless among others. As part of Mana Search’s event presenting their State of Diversity report, Eileen joins Lloyd to walk through the homogeneity and inequality within the current Tech and Venture Capital industries. From the intrinsic gendering of children’s toys, to how to build a team, to the astronomic rise but also war stories with Monzo, and even to fashion trends within VC, this episode has it all.
00:00 - An Introduction to Eileen & to Mana Search’s Diversity Report
1:43 - Marquee investments made by Eileen
4:23 - How to build a diverse team
5:35 - What more recent trends are we seeing within diversity
9:20 - Heroes and role models for young people
13:38 - Monzo and Startup CEOs vs Bank Executives
16:39 - Regulatory scrutiny whilst maintaining creativity
18:20 - Eileen’s background
20:15 - Eileen’s Mana
22:41 - Influences on Eileen’s career
25:38 - Sexist Cultures and historic workplace misogyny
27:40 - Gendered children’s clothes & ingrained societal sexism
32:53 - Diversity within Crypto & Blockchain
37:15 - Clothing trends and homogeneity within VC
40:55 - Eileen’s heroes and dream guest