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Andy Jenks - General Partner at Drive Capital: Bootstrapping vs. Raising Capital, Mission-Driven Startups, and the Silicon Valley Journey
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Andy Jenks is a General Partner at Drive Capital, a Columbus-based venture capital firm focused on investing in world-class technology companies outside of Silicon Valley.
Before Drive, Andy was a 3-time founder at Formation Data Systems, Discovery Mining, and Infinite Research. Both Discovery Mining and Infinite Research were successfully acquired.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Experiences from the early days of Silicon Valley.
- When to take venture capital instead of bootstrap.
- The critical role of being mission-driven in a startup.
- When to bootstrap instead of taking venture capital.
- The importance of understanding your fit within the business stages.
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