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SF to London - My Journey Into UK Venture

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Eighteen months ago, I waved goodbye to San Francisco and moved my life over to the rain-sodden streets of London. My husband’s British – that’s love for you. I wasn’t just changing cities, but also careers. Leaving Twitter, I had just joined Chapter One, an early-stage venture capital fund founded by Jeff Morris, the former VP of Product and Monetization at Tinder who had been integral to Tinder’s rise from a small app to a headline-breaking IPO. Jeff knew how to spot and turn product-market-fit into enormous scale, and I was excited to work with him. The day before my flight, I started to have second thoughts – powerful ones. I had bounced around from city to city in my twenties: New York to London, back to New York, a stint in Los Angeles, and eventually, San Francisco. I hadn’t felt hesitant about any of those moves – why was this time different? The biggest part of venture capital is people, not money. You need to know the actual humans behind the companies, technologies, markets,

Eighteen months ago, I waved goodbye to San Francisco and moved my life over to the rain-sodden streets of London. My husband’s British – that’s love for you. I wasn’t just changing cities, but also careers. Leaving Twitter, I had just joined Chapter One, an early-stage venture capital fund founded by Jeff Morris, the former VP of Product and Monetization at Tinder who had been integral to Tinder’s rise from a small app to a headline-breaking IPO. Jeff knew how to spot and turn product-market-fit into enormous scale, and I was excited to work with him. The day before my flight, I started…

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