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#89 Andrew J Scott (7percent ventures) - From Entrepreneuer to Venture Capital Investor

#89 Andrew J Scott (7percent ventures) - From Entrepreneuer to Venture Capital Investor

FromThe Wall Street Lab


#89 Andrew J Scott (7percent ventures) - From Entrepreneuer to Venture Capital Investor

FromThe Wall Street Lab

ratings:
Length:
51 minutes
Released:
May 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Andrew Scott is a founding partner of 7percent ventures, a London & San Francisco-based technology VC. Before founding 7percent ventures in 2014, Andrew founded six startups of his own. Among these was the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning (Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between he did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent. Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a global non-profit network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.   In this episode we talk about Andrew's journey from serial entrepreneur to Venture Capital investors. Along the way we learn about his selection criteria for investments, lessons learned from being an entrepreneuer, CEO, and then investors. We also talk about how to stand out as someone looking to get into the VC industry. 
Released:
May 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Wall Street Lab is a podcast that explores the world of finance from an insider perspective. The host, Andreas von Hirschhausen interviews top financial professionals in the fields of private equity, hedge funds, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, asset management, venture capital, management consulting, trading and many more. The themes range from investment related topics, financial markets and news, career development in finance, favourite books, personal habits, just to name a few.