30 min
4: Dave Young, Partner, Cooley LLP Diversity Riders
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- Entrepreneurship
Dave Young is a Partner at Cooley LLP, a preeminent law firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with 5+ decades of experience in Venture Capital and one of the legal market leaders in the entire VC space. Dave has been a tech lawyer for over 25 years where his practice has consistently been representing venture backed companies and their inventors. He founded the Santa Monica office for Cooley in 2012 and has since grown it to over 60 employees, while gaining a reputation as one of the top law tech lawyers in the Los Angeles tech and venture capital ecosystem.
Dave was instrumental as an advisor in the evolution of the actual language that ultimately became the Diversity Rider. In this episode of the Diversity Riders Podcast, Dave shares the insight of how lawyers and executives across Cooley came together in the Summer of 2020 to discuss and formally include the Diversity Rider in their internal term sheet generator for all their clients, and also their external term sheet generator for the general public at Cooley GO.
Dave Young is a Partner at Cooley LLP, a preeminent law firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with 5+ decades of experience in Venture Capital and one of the legal market leaders in the entire VC space. Dave has been a tech lawyer for over 25 years where his practice has consistently been representing venture backed companies and their inventors. He founded the Santa Monica office for Cooley in 2012 and has since grown it to over 60 employees, while gaining a reputation as one of the top law tech lawyers in the Los Angeles tech and venture capital ecosystem.
Dave was instrumental as an advisor in the evolution of the actual language that ultimately became the Diversity Rider. In this episode of the Diversity Riders Podcast, Dave shares the insight of how lawyers and executives across Cooley came together in the Summer of 2020 to discuss and formally include the Diversity Rider in their internal term sheet generator for all their clients, and also their external term sheet generator for the general public at Cooley GO.
30 min