Carina Szpilka and the dilemma of a tech VC

Carina Szpilka is a VC investor in digital technologies in Spain. After many years as CEO in a finance corporation, she joined K fund to help startups change the markets in which they operate and improve the life of people that consume their products.

In this episode we talk about the confusion between empowerment and entitlement, the dilema between the need to further digitize business while allowing individuals to disconnect and the importance of switching from to short to long time preference

I really enjoyed talking to Carina and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too.

Key take aways

1. If you have to be available to reply all the time, you sacrifice time to think and prepare responses.
2. Internet empowers the individual and giving them a voice. While that is great, people are confusing having a voice with having rights and believe they are entitled to things, without the responsibility to those things.
3. Somethings can only be achieved if you have long time preference. We need to educate our children to be more patient
4. There is an ethical dilema in the VC tech business regarding the creating of engagement in users
5. There is a big business opportunity for anonymity, but we are far away from self sovereignty.
6. To have an innovative boss, you need innovative employees, but most employees are just waiting for instructions

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/carinaszpilka

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carinaszpilka

Website: https://www.carinaszpilka.es