#6 → Shawn Xu: Globetrotting and Gaining Perspective (part 2)
Description
Among other topics, in the second part of this conversation we touch on mentors, college entrepreneurship and getting a foothold in venture.
If you're building something (especially if it's in the elder care space), check out Mike Maples Jr.'s podcast — https://greatness.floodgate.com/ — and slide in Shawn's DMs! Twitter linked below...
[0:31 ]: Shawn's take on the landscape of college entrepreneurship
[3:38 ]: How he thinks about cultivating an "information diet"
[8:15 ]: Learning under the legendary Ann Miura-Ko and Mike Maples Jr. at Floodgate
[14:47 ]: The acute impact Eric Liu and Jack Dorsey have had on Shawn's life
[17:25 ]: An author and podcast recommendation
Worth website - worth.carrd.co
On college entrepreneurship - https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/how-students-are-founding-funding-and-joining-startups/
Advice for breaking into venture - https://medium.com/startup-grind/9-essential-lessons-that-helped-me-break-into-vc-fb05d2bd058
Shawn's Twitter - https://twitter.com/shawnxu
Book recommendations - https://www.notion.so/book-podcast-recommendations-59abba1db1db4fc2b9b9a4e08edb0b24
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