VC10X - Turning "employees" into "founders" - Rob Liu, Founder, Athena VC

Rob Liu is the founder of Athena VC, where he is aiming to help 500 founders from developing countries start their businesses by matching their salaries for 6 months.

Rob is also the founder of ContactOut, a bootstrapped email prospecting tool, which has made over $10 million in revenue.

In this episode, we talk about -

- What is Athena VC?

- How they are matching salaries to back high-potential folks to start companies

- What they look for in candidates while evaluating them for the program

- How they help founders find the right thing to work on

- How is the Athena VC program structured?

& lots more

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