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Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund

Dorm Room Fund

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4 days ago

What if the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, investors, and product visionaries held office hours just for student founders? What would you ask? What stories would they tell? What lessons would product builders teach the next generation of game-changers? We had the same questions. So we asked them. This is Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund. To learn more about DRF and apply to be considered for an investment, visit our website: www.dormroomfund.com.

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What if the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, investors, and product visionaries held office hours just for student founders? What would you ask? What stories would they tell? What lessons would product builders teach the next generation of game-changers? We had the same questions. So we asked them. This is Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund. To learn more about DRF and apply to be considered for an investment, visit our website: www.dormroomfund.com.

Show more...

Entrepreneurship

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Isabelle Zhou, Chief of Staff and Investor at Floodgate

Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund

24 minutes 59 seconds

3 years ago

Isabelle Zhou, Chief of Staff and Investor at Floodgate

Andrew Xu and Daniel Aboul-Hassan speak with Isabelle Zhou (@isabelle_zhou) from Floodgate!

(1:12) - Launching DRF's Female Founder Track

(3:16) - Why Isabelle worked at an early-stage startup (Nooks) right out of college

(5:31) - How Isabelle defines success and how that definition has evolved

(6:47) - Crazy story while working at Nooks

(9:57) - Female mentorship and working with Ann Miura-Ko

(11:29) - What surprises Isabelle about VC

(12:57) - How Floodgate remains competitive in today's environment

(15:25) - Product-Market fit lessons

(17:52) - An underrated skill crucial for success in VC

(19:21) - The business Isabelle would start tomorrow & favorite her Taylor Swift album

(20:32) - Story from writing personal year-in-review

(22:16) - Decisions that don't seem large at the moment, but have a disproportionate impact

(23:49) - What Isabelle hopes to see happen with DRF

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Get in touch with Isabelle!

Twitter: @isabelle_zhou

Email: isabelle@floodgate.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/isabellezhou/