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Dave discovered Vanessa when she was featured in an intriguing Wall Street Journal article by Lisa Bannon. The article sparked his interest about businesses engineered to serve the Stubbornly Young, and reigniting careers in your 60s and 70s. 

Vanessa spoke to Dave about transitioning from the workplace to retirement. Flipping the script on the processes of valued workers retiring from their jobs and what companies can do to help with changing priorities to help leave their legacy and pass on their knowledge to up and coming generations through the notion of ‘true mentorship’. 

As the world population moves to living to one hundred years old, Vanessa shares the concept of being a ‘Mentern’ in your 60s and beyond and how retirees and the younger generation can work together by exchanging hard and soft skills through mentoring to improve ourselves and preserve intellectual capacity from our experiences.

Top Takeaways:

• Changing dynamics of the aging population
• Embracing the wisdom and experience of older individuals
• Importance of transferring institutional knowledge within organizations
• Impact of knowledge transfer on company competitiveness
• Concept of flexible work arrangements and its potential benefits
• The value of mentorship in facilitating knowledge transfer and enhancing professional development
• Emerging trend of companies focused on longevity tech and aging
• Excitement about the potential for innovation in the aging tech space
• Future of work and providing purpose for individuals as they age
• Dave's perspective on the future of work and potential future plans

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“What we're going to see, especially in the next decade with the second wave of baby boomers getting into retirement age, is that people are not going to just take it and be put to the side, these are people who are incredibly dynamic, so wise, they have so much to give. I'm really excited for the types of services that they're going to be coming up with, and also how we're going to be working with them in an intergenerational society in a way that we haven't seen.”  –Vanessa Liu

“The currency that people who are now of retirement age, what they have is their wisdom, is their knowledge.” –Vanessa Liu

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About Vanessa Liu

Vanessa has over 25 years of experience and a proven track record of value creation as a serial founder, operator, strategist and investor. She was most recently Vice President of SAP.iO North America, SAP’s early-stage venture arm, where she recruited and accelerated 87 enterprise software startups. Prior to SAP, Vanessa was Chief Operating Officer at Trigger Media Group, a digital media venture studio, and co-founded Trigger’s portfolio companies: InsideHook and Fevo. She began her career at McKinsey & Company in th

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