When Engineers Run Venture with Jake Ellowitz and Alex Chee

Alex Chee (@alexnchee) and Jake Ellowitz (@wakkadojo), who help run product and engineering at Tribe Capital, join Erik on this episode to discuss:

- How the product and engineering-oriented mindset at Tribe impacts their investing and why it forms part of their investment thesis.

- The different incentives within a firm and how this creates new approaches.

- Lessons learned from their time at Social Capital.

- Products they’ve built at Tribe and how they’ve helped with the investment process.

- Why other firms haven’t done this so far.

- How their team interfaces with other companies and firms.

- Their philosophy at the firm.

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