The Venture Capital Perspective with Kevin Spain, General Partner of Emergence Capital Launch Lessons

Today, Sam is talking to Kevin Spain, General Partner at Emergence Capital and they talk about Kevin's experiences as a founder and CEO during the .com crash, his time as an investor, healthy mechanisms for dealing with failure, the value of coaches, the launch of Xbox Live, and what venture capital firms look for in startups. All of this and more, on the Launch Lessons podcast.
Kevin Spain is the founder of atMadison.com and a General Partner at Emergence Capital, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise software companies. Kevin was an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies today, including Salesforce, Box, Yammer, and Zoom. He's also spent time as a corporate development executive at Microsoft and EA Games.

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