Breaking orthodoxies in venture capital

My chat with Lee Edwards, General Partner at Root Ventures

Today’s chat is with Lee Edwards, GP at Root Ventures Sar: Root breaks a bunch of VC orthodoxies. You went all in on hard tech. You have stayed close to your seed roots. All the partners are engineers. No one’s ex-banker or consultant! Your new website is fun and weird. All of this says a lot about Root’s ethos. Root has thrived and gone against the grain in the world of VC, which is a sea of sameness. Lee: None of us can envision a world where we aren’t building for fun, and that comes down to the areas of engineering where we have worked professionally, as well as the hobbies that tend…

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