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The Connection Newsletter 19 - Landing job opps, Gwyneth, Connie, Tommy, and Renzo
Hello!
This is edition #19 of
The Connection. This weekly email goes out family, friends, and people I hope to call my friends someday in the future.
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First,
. This is how I think about finding job opportunities and building professional relationships. It’s a bit more analytical than other posts, but most accurately describes how I think about the process (H/T to Seth for asking good questions and making me think about this).
Now, onto this week’s articles:
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. A New York Times profile on Gwyneth Paltrow and her company Goop, which sells detoxes and vitamin D supplements and… psychic vampire repellent…? For all the vitriol the brand has attracted, you have to admire this: the company’s roots are in a newsletter Ms. Paltrow used to send out around 2008, with her favorite recommendations from around the world. Today she’s grown that newsletter into a $250 million company.
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. Connie Chan is the second woman to make general partner at a16z (for those who don’t know, a16z is a venture capital firm that’s invested in companies like Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Zynga, Airbnb and Foursquare. They do OK).
But what makes Ms. Chan’s promotion impressive has nothing to do with diversity, and everything to do with company structure. A16z’s policy was to NEVER promote from within to general partner. This is a policy they upheld for nine years, until last month.
Favorite quote:
“While the rest of us described deals beginning with the entrepreneur and the size of the opportunity, Connie always saw things from the target customer point of view first then worked her way back to the entrepreneur and the market size. Her different perspective landed us Pinterest and Lime early on when our conventional thinking would have failed. As importantly, she fiercely championed both deals so aggressively that we had to understand her point of view.”
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. Mr. Griffith is the CEO of ClickMinded. This profile is written by himself and not the typical “Look at me I made six-figures from the internets” kind of origin story.
He talks about navigating the corporate terrain at a tech company to start teaching his course and how he used MeetUp to build his business. The profile focuses on “how he started,” rather than selling the aspiration like a cheap Instagram ad.
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. Just this:
“When “timeshare king” David Siegel loses billions in the 2008 financial crisis, the family is forced to travel by commercial jet and one of the children turns and asks, ‘Mommy, what are all these people doing on our plane?’”
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when Peter Nguyen reminded me I don’t want to start looking too old too fast. Been trying this out for a few days now. So far my face feels the same, but smell more cucumbery.
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While the rest of us mere mortals spend our lives puttering around, let’s remember that
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