Rachael Neumann: Being a social chameleon growing up in New York, medicine morphing into business, building the live event online ticketing biz in Australia, investing in the next tech startup

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Learn about Rachael’s sunrise in New York, with her dad being the son of jewish immigrants and mum from a rural part of New York with 8 brothers and sisters with Rachael's mum being the eldest. 

Welcome to episode #77 w Rachael Neumann! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

1. Influences of growing up in New York with two sides of the family, with her parents bringing different perspectives

2. Navigating her career having varied interests and taking the the entrance exams to law, business & medical school

3. Why the transition from the US to Australia was hard personally and professionally

4. 2 big learnings from leading eventbrite and Amazon startups teams

5. Process to get to know founders from scratch to consider investing in, how to say no with empathy and valuations vs hype

Please enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

02:25 - New York and Melbourne

04:00 - Re-imagining a high flyer

06:00 - Being a social chameleon navigating the two sides of her family

08:33 - Wanting to leave New York City

11:33 - Heroes in Nobel Prize Winners

13:30 - Success at 20

15:35 - Painful learning from having varied interests

22:04 - Moving to Australia by accident

25:25 - Major differences between US and Australia

28:51 - Hiring a team for a new category that doesn’t exist yet

33:10 - How investing in startups started

36:45 - Process for getting to know a business from scratch

40:26 - Dislocation of Valuations vs hype in valuations

43:33 - How to say no with empathy

48:17 - Transition from individual investor to a fund

53:22 - Final sprint!