The challenges of a VC career

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The challenges of a VC career

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10 years ago

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Steve Jobs of Apple fame does not seem to be impressed by venture capitalists and once said VC "sounds like a bullshit job to me." Ironically, this was reported by none other than Michael Moritz, who was then a journalist and now is a venture capitalist and Chairman of Sequoia Capital. Of his own experiences as a VC, Mortiz would say, “Every day is composed of a hundred soap operas - it’s an exhilarating place to live and work” As a venture capitalist, you are not creating anything new, but ra...

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