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I interviewed Josh Elman, Partner Greylock Partners @GLAZED Conference.  Josh worked for Linkedin, facebook & Twitter & now hes on the venture side he’s interested in companies that have very small connections & bring people together that can have similar impacts on the world.  He looks for things like large networks, new social platforms, or marketplace platforms that really change the way that people build things & connect to each other.  He spoke about his journey to be a venture capitalist. He always loved joining with founders who had huge ideas which he thought could be a lot bigger for the world & help them realize that.  He likes to become a key part of teams of 4, 5 or 6 companies & help them grow to similar scale.  He sees it more as joining a team rather than investing.  ‘It’s really lucky to be able to build things that you think will have an impact on the future!”  He spoke about the changes in the venture industry: “We’re in a really amazing period right now where it’s cheaper & easier to get a company started & going & seeing if an idea will work, to see if customers & users will be attracted to something new.  We’re in this great age of experimentation & the experimentation is already starting to happen in hardware & is already starting to catch up to what you can do in software. Its incredible & it has changed the financing structure. It’s faster & easier to find money to get these businesses off the ground from a whole bunch of different vehicles & people than ever before.  But you can’t forget that it still takes years & years of hard work building a business.  The business of venture capital as people who pool money & are then able to go invest in other companies to help them get that scale isn’t really changing to help build companies for the long long haul.  Even though at this early stage of experimenting getting ideas off the ground we are seeing radical shifts!

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Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which has served the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 6 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

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