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"We went from about $70,000 a month in revenue when I first took over the project, uh, to a little over $700 million a year in annual revenue."

"Most of my time is spent helping startups prepare themselves, either to raise capital or to be acquired, or IPO."

"I work weekends. I work holidays. I work all the time, but that also means I don't work all the time."

"for a job like mine, as a consultant, I think it's imperative that you have that you're very competent in whatever you're chosen technical field is, or whatever you're consulting on."

"I get to meet some of the best and brightest people, um, and sometimes the world experts in their field every day."

"The biggest challenge I would say for most consultants is deal flow."

"Seeing these nascent industries begin from the seed stage and grow up to be entire industries unto themselves is fascinating."

"In the VC industry, the people that tend to do best are the ones that are dynamic...more facets to their personality than being a one trick pony."

"How much fun it could be. I think I probably would've jumped into this industry much earlier in my career, had I known what was waiting for me."

"Most VC funds have internships, so as an undergrad, you can always join a VC as an intern."

"When you're making a decision, everybody states their case...but once the decision has been made...everybody commits to seeing it through."

"the things that those specific opportunities gave me was the training on how to manage a budget. So when I first started my career, one of the first questions that I was constantly getting asked was, have you ever managed your own p and l?"

"I think I probably could have done that a lot faster had I, uh, known about, uh, some of these things, uh, earlier."

"it really opened my eyes to the, the various skills that all of the other students had."