Shawn Xu, Partner at On Deck

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Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund

Dorm Room Fund

49 episodes

5 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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Shawn Xu, Partner at On Deck

Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund

28 minutes 8 seconds

3 years ago

Shawn Xu, Partner at On Deck

Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund is back! Subscribe for weekly episode interviews with some of the brightest minds in business, venture, and tech.

This week, Souhail talks to Shawn Xu, a partner at On Deck and Forbes 30 under 30. Shawn previously worked at Square, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Dorm Room Fund. He was also an investor at Floodgate, where he worked under Mike Maples.

(1:42) - Shawn's background and upbringing

(3:20) - How to stand out in VC

(5:50) - Why Shawn loves venture

(8:05) - Policy work and political background

(11:10) - The limits of policy experimentation

(14:30) - Biggest misconceptions about being a VC

(19:00) - The positives of being a VC before starting a company

(22:35) - Meeting the President and then the Vice President the next day

(24:52) - Meeting Quincy Jones

(26:20) - What a successful career looks like to Shawn