“The only skill set I think that really applied from VC is I was at a fund where they made us do a ton of cold outreach on LinkedIn. I took that and applied that to recruiting, like, the right engineers and people for my team.”

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applied cold outreach techniques learned in VC to recruit engineers and team members

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