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The best source of info on scout programs, so great job!
Scouts are the people founders call before they go raise.
If you want to eventually work at a venture fund, the VC partners will look at your scout track record.
A lot of women entrepreneurs reach out to me, because there are still too few of us and it’s my mission to change that. The diligence items we go through as scouts also help me think more objectively about my own company.
They’ll never get enough credit for this, but one thing Sequoia did was use scouts to radically increase the amount of diversity in the industry.
We’re seeing some investment in areas which are not the ones we’re spending a tonne of time on at seed-stage. Our starters community is taking our interest towards areas we didn’t know existed.
