Breaking into Venture: An Outsider Turned Venture Capitalist Shares How to Take Risks, Create Power, and Build Life-Changing Wealth

INTRODUCTION

When I was a little girl, I had widely varying career aspirations. Briefly enamored by the cuteness of little animals, I had a veterinarian phase, but mostly I wanted to be some variation of a writer. I self-published my first book from underneath the kitchen table by the ripe old age of six, culminating in a self-crayon-illustrated fiction series called Dixie the Aardvark, which chronicled the misadventures of an overweight aardvark and her best friend, Missy the Chicken. I spent my summers at journalism camp learning to write leads. In middle school, I even tried on the emo poet thing for size. I religiously chronicled all these ambitions in my journal, which I named “Buddy,” hoping that one day the journal itself might even become ...