Letters to a Young Investor: Kirsten Green

The Forerunner founder on failure, persistence, and breaking into venture.

"Love your thoughtful original long-form content! – Kiran, a paying subscriber Illustration by Eleanor Taylor Friends, In 2002, Kirsten Green decided she wanted to be an investor. It would take her 10 years to bring that aspiration to life, a period marked by experimentation, persistence, and failure. As you’ll read in this correspondence, for a moment, it looked like Kirsten’s venture career had ended before it had truly begun. Thankfully, for Kirsten, her future LPs and founders, that was not the end of the story. Since Kirsten launched Forerunner in 2012, she has quickly gained…

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