#6 - Meagan Loyst (VC @ Lerer Hippeau)

11/01/20 • 27 min

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This week we had on Meagan Loyst, a VC at Lerer Hippeau based in New York.

Lerer Hippeau is one of the most active and well-respected early-stage venture funds in the world, and within her role, Meagan focuses primarily on Seed and Series A investments in consumer, digital media, e-commerce, emerging tech, and enterprise software. Meagan recently did some interesting work around Gen Z trends, and after interviewing 75 other young investors from around the world, she published some of here findings here.

In this talk, we discuss:

Meagan's path into early-stage investing,
Why she decided spend so much time understanding Gen Z investment preferences,
Her main takeaways and companies to watch based on her findings

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This week we had on Meagan Loyst, a VC at Lerer Hippeau based in New York.

In this talk, we discuss:

Meagan's path into early-stage investing,
Why she decided spend so much time understanding Gen Z investment preferences,
Her main takeaways and companies to watch based on her findings

📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.

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This week we had on Abir Liben, an investor at Serena Ventures based in San Francisco.

Serena Ventures is the venture arm of Serena Williams, and since launching in 2014, the fund has established itself as one of the top-performing celebrity-backed funds.

In this talk, we discuss:

Abir's unplanned path into venture,
the dynamics of working under one of the most popular figures in the world,
how celebrities are able to add value where other investors cannot compete,
misused founder evaluation frameworks

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