I’ve been a venture capitalist for about a decade now starting off as an intern at the storied fund Kleiner Perkins, which led the earliest rounds of funding for iconic companies such as Google, Amazon, Genentech, and more.
People think of VCs as either allknowing savants that have a crystal ball into the future of tech or as capitalist blowhards that just try to pump themselves up. Whatever you believe, one thing IS for sure, it’s a super secretive industry that has outsized influence in financing the most legendary tech companies.

Sadly, there aren’t any videos online that share what it's really like being a VC, good and bad, from inside the industry. So in this video, I’m going to share the 7 biggest secrets and surprises about being a VC in Silicon Valley