For International Women's Day, I'd like practice the ✨SHINE✨ theory and showcase women I admire and respect A LOT:
I love how @najjmahal has built @ethelsclub in such a mindful and intentional way. Instead of raising a bunch of VC money, she has raised patient capital to build a safe space for ALL POCs. This is the kind of long term mindset I admire in a founder who's driven from the heart 💕
I love how @LeahFessler has utilized her background in journalism and VC to build chief.com. She's a kind heart who cares about supporting women like @najjmahal in building @ethelsclub.
I admire @LJampol for creating a just, more equitable, and diverse world for all of us to live AND work in at @ReadySetInc. She articulates the injustice women and POCs experience on a daily basis through researched studies and statistics. You can't argue against her numbers.
I deeply respect @becher_emily for being a fearless leader at @SamsungNEXT! She elevates us all with her poise, boldness, intellect, and grace. She's also witty +funny and keeps me grounded during stressful times. Thank you for your mentorship and sponsorship 💪
@annimaniac is the future ME I aspire to be (with my own spin of course). She chooses to fight and win deals with substance and intellectual grit like no other. 30 mins with Ann is sitting in a 3 hour Stanford lecture. You walk away inspired, emboldened, and ready to crush it.
@catleecatlee reminds me that it's possible to be vulnerable AND powerful at the same time. You can be nice AND effective. She lives at her rhythm to the sound of her own drum beat while championing more diverse founders and lifting other women up along the way.
@jess inspires me to start small with an idea and grow it into a movement like @HashtagAngels did. She helped counsel me through critical career transitions and encouraged me to keep persevering despite all odds. I look up to her A LOT. 💕
@miamanhattan makes me want to show up to work every day at @SamsungNEXT. She is the heart and soul of our founder community. Mia embodies "GIVE FIRST" on a daily basis serving founders and her coworker and friends. I've never met a woman with a bigger and more generous heart ❤️
@OrchidBertelsen reminds me that it's possible to be a badass mom and a career woman. She continues to lead with vulnerability helping me see that the scars and hardships we deal with are also the source of our superpowers 🦸♀️
@sarahdrinkwater weaves both social impact with capitalism, leading the Tech & Society Solutions Lab at @OmidyarNetwork. She reminds me that capitalism and purpose can go hand in hand. We can and WILL build a more purposeful and humane future with technology.
@techladyallison has built an amazing hiring and recruiting platform through @hiretechladies, empower women to take a leap of faith in their careers. She's also someone who I talk to a lot about burnout and balancing our ambitions with our health--the two go hand in hand🤝
This is by no means an exhaustive list. Please follow these women, champion them, and learn from their stories 🤗💕✨
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52% of the wealth in the world is now managed by women. Let that sink in. And yet it is stigmatized for women to talk about money. All my investing, personal financing, stock speculation chats are with groups of male friends. Let's change that.
Wow this really blew up. If you would like to chat about wealth management with me, please feel free to DM and I can route you to our @SVB_Financial Private Bank. I'm also working on a financial literacy workshop for first gen/women/BIPOC founders so please stay tuned!
1/ Find your goalkeepers instead of your gate keepers 🥅
2/ In Marc Ecko's book Unlabel, he talks about the concept of gatekeepers vs goal keepers. Most entrepreneurs obsess about the opinions of gate keepers: VCs, press, critics, peers etc—often distracting themselves from building with authenticity.
3/ Goalkeepers on the other hand are people who tell you what you’re actually doing is valuable and empower you to keep creating. They show not tell through actions: angel investing, buying your product, using your services, and engagement in your content.
Finished Ted Lasso. Man, what a great show. Looking forward to the Medium thought piece about his positive coaching style and how that translates to leadership in corporate America.
1. Love how he individualizes each player's strengths and weaknesses. He makes sure each player reaches their unique potential.
2. His optimism and earnestness really creates a reality distortion field for others. He embodies "kill them with kindness" and it only works b/c he's 100% genuine.
One thing I'm learning is rewiring my brain to move away from obstacles and risk mitigation mindset to risk-taking. As a 1st gen immigrant, I have internalized a lot of limiting beliefs. I am indeed capable of more risk than I believe. I am capable of doing more than I perceive.
When perceiving obstacles you search for ways something *can't* work so you're not seeking opportunities. It's all about shifting from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. There are limitless opportunities in this world.
Scarcity mindset means you're always proving yourself, proving your work, proving your worth. Abundance mindset means you instantiate your worth, bet on yourself, and find people who truly *see* you to rally around you.
The “substackification” of knowledge workers is happening bc people are increasingly becoming freelancers. Bc you don’t own your own patents or IP working for institutions knowledge workers are looking for ways to create a portfolio of thoughts, opinions, and unique perspective.
When people hire for non-task oriented roles like PM, VC, and consulting they are evaluating candidates on their taste, thoughts, and intellectual palette. Hence, why writing and sharing your ideas openly is so important.
As industries and labor markets become outsourced and overtaken by AI and automation, knowledge work becomes more abstracted and less task-oriented. People will start to hiring more for your opinions, cognitions, and world view.
Something I'm learning the hard way in this world is that being a substantive thinker and value creator is a downside in a world that runs on nepotism, incompetence, and personal relationships. This has been one of the hardest lessons to learn as an operator turned investor.
As an immigrant and daughter of a scientist, I was taught to show "proof points" of my worth, show people work in advance, instead of selling them on the dream. What I had to learn is the power of reality creation and selling people on you --betting on you, not your work.
I'm still wrapping my head around this as I dive deeper into the venture world, wanting to prove myself to founders and LPs. I guess you could say this evidence-based thinking is a symptom of the "Model Minority" myth. I need to do less proving & more selling on the Bo Ren DREAM.