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What to Think, Ep. 18: One of the first ladies in VC

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Kathryn Gould was one of the world’s first female venture capitalists.

After a successful career at Oracle, she joined a VC firm and then later started Foundation Capital. Now retired, she recently gave a commencement speech at the University of Chicago that’s filled with advice for graduates — especially women — who want to make it in tech.

On this week’s podcast, Gould chats with VentureBeat’s Dylan Tweney and Kia Kokalitcheva about being a woman in VC, how she got really good at her job, and … winemaking.

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