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Top Qualities You Need to Succeed, According to Founders Fund VC - Business Insider

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Cyan Banister is a self-taught engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor who made early bets on companies like Uber, SpaceX, and Postmates. Now, she manages multi-millionaire dollar deals at Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's San Francisco-based venture firm. Banister's path to success isn't typical for a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist: As a teenager, she dropped out of high school to provide for herself after issues at home forced her to become a ward of the state. Since she was 15 years old, Banister cobbled together a living working as a sales associate at record shops and as a call-person at tech-support hotlines. Most of Banister's engineering knowledge comes from books she picked up in her early twenties. "I used to be ashamed about the fact that I never went to college," Banister said in an interview with Business Insider. "Years ago, I'd never speak about it." Now, however, Banister says she feels differently. Among her Ivy League-educated peers, Banister considers her

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