Claire Zhao
Hybrid investor-creator at Lightspeed Venture Partners who runs the Zowie Talks media platform.
“I've obviously been in the venture space for a while now. Started as an associate six years ago. I was at a firm called GSV.”
Source→“Really targeting these pre-founder archetypes. And then my job is to build that out and then think deeply about how we can systematically make sure that we're converting that talent density into interesting opportunities, especially at the early stages and pre-seed and seed stage.”
Source→“I had brands like Vanta, Perplexity, Meta. Like, all of them knocking on my door being like, please, can you share what we're building with our audiences.”
Source→“Immediately when I started, it was actually pretty humbling because I was like, this is very different than what I'm seeing on Twitter. I mean, it just felt like I was navigating two different universes.”
Source→“With this new paradigm, you have this new opportunity for all these tooling to support agents, which we've never had before.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.