#56: Tsune Shirota - Partner at World Innovation Lab - Investing in Asana, TransferWise, and Auth0
Description
Topics:
- Evernote and how Tsune got involved.
- The difference in mindset between Japanese entrepreneurs vs Americans.
- The investment in Asana - organizational alignment
- How WiL manages to get into the most competitive rounds
- Promoting and handling disagreement within firms
Tsune Shirote is a partner at World Innovation Lab, a VC firm focused on mid-to-late stage investments in the U.S. and Japan. Tsune led World Innovation Lab's investment in Asana, Auth0, Kong, Mural, mmhmm, and TransferWise. He also actively worked on the investments in Automation Anywhere and BirdEye.
Prior to joining WiL, Tsune was the VP of Business Operations and Strategy at Evernote, where he spearheaded analytics and was instrumental in improving the company’s revenue growth and financial stability through a series of successful monetization efforts.
He has also worked for Blue Ridge Capital and T. Rowe Price analyzing publicly traded internet companies and earlier in his career, Tsune was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers that later became Barclays Capital.
Tsune holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo.
Email: tsune@wilab.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tsuneshirota?lang=en
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsuneshirota/
Book: https://amzn.to/2LRvjia
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