Gaby Goldberg (Investor @ Bessemer Venture Partners)
Engineering attention as a startup, the playbook for building in public, the need for curators, and thoughts on the current state of audio
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This week we had on Gaby Goldberg (@gaby_goldberg) of Bessemer Venture Partners.
Bessemer has built a brand as some of the best software investors in the world, and their portfolio consists of companies like Twilio, Shopify, LinkedIn, Twitch, and DocuSign just to name a few. Gaby is one of the newest members of the fund, and she’s already made quite a name for herself within the venture world.
In this talk, we discuss:
How startups can engineer attention in the early days
The need for curation in the age of abundance
Why Gaby believes we are living in a golden era for audio
Check out the full episode below:
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