012 | "How to Raise Capital - Investors Insider Tips" (Shawn at Floodgate Investors)
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Shawn Xu – Senior Associate of Floodgate
Forbes List: USA
Year: 2020
Category: Venture Capital
Shawn Xu is an MBA from UPenn and is an early stage investor at Floodgate. Previously, he was the managing partner of the Dorm Room Fund that was famously focused on student-run startups. Shawn made more than 20 pre-seed investments.
Before venture capital, Shawn managed the famous Square payment device and their expansion into Europe. It is now a publicly traded company with a $27 billion market cap. He also managed Vungle’s expansion into Asia, which was eventually acquired by Blackstone for 750M dollars.
His writing on the university startup ecosystem has been featured on Forbes, TechCrunch and Startup Grind.
Shawn is another example of learning from his immigrant family through their experiences and reaching the American dream. In 2016 Shawn started thinking about geopolitics and international affairs. His ultimate goal was to help American technology companies get into Asian, European and Latin American markets.
We start our conversation with Shawn discussing:
I’m sure you learn valuable lessons from Shawn. And take a look at AnchorList.com for the best great crowdsourced rankings from one of the best startup operators in tech!
“Under 30 Seconds Round”
1. What is the book you’ve gifted more often than any other book, and why?
2. What’s one of the best investments and one of the worst investments you’ve ever made and why?
3. What’s the most impactful thing you do in your Morning routine and most impactful thing you do in your Evening routine?
4. Pretend you won the Peter Thiel Fellowship and you were going to get money to start a business instead of go to college, what’s the very first thing you’d do to start a new business?
5 .What’s something you never knew you needed?
RESOURCES:
GUEST INFO: Shawn Xu – Senior Associate of Floodgate
HOST INFO: Phil Michaels
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