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This Week in Startups · 2025-11-06 · 84 min · 16,070 words

Is investing REALLY the hardest job in tech? A TWIST VC Roundtable (ft. Deedy Das and Jay Eum) | E2204

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Dee Dee, you uh were promoted recently from principal to partner, I believe. Uh I know you probably can't tell us all of Minlo's long-term plans for succession, but I am curious how often you think about your upper trajectory at the firm and uh if there is more headroom for you to grow into, do you want to become one of its core leaders down the road? Is that a possibility? Tell me what it's like from your hot seat. Honestly, I I I'm very thankful.

that they brought me in as somebody who had, you know, no real experience in venture. Like I was really a person who just studied the craft from a distance, right? I I write online, I read everything I can. I was a part of a startup glean that went really well from the very beginning to to about the time I left and it's still doing fantastically. I just don't have that approach.

approach to how I see Menlo. I mean, I I joined this fantastic team very much to work as a team together and uh and reinvigorate what the firm uh stood for. I mean, we've been around for 50 years. We're on our 17th fund. So we'll a part of the old guard really in terms of how storied the firm is, um, but

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