#116 Be Bombastic To Get Ahead — Dr Ala Alenazi (Ascension VC)

Dr Ala Alenazi is a TechBio Investor at Ascension and holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Cambridge University — she describes herself as a recovering scientist with extreme FOMO.

0:00 Intro

0:47 Being bombastic

3:32 Do PhDs make good VC investors?

10:38 How much of VC is luck?

12:47 Network building in VC

19:16 Getting deal flow

22:15 How to ask for things

24:43 Experience being a brown woman in VC

28:42 No one gives you anything, you just have to take it

33:50 Main character syndrome

We talk about how being bombastic is the key to getting opportunities, why contrary to popular belief — PhDs don’t suck as investors, how to ask people to do things for you and what it’s like being a brown woman in VC.

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