28 min
5: Dan Levitan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Maveron Diversity Riders
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- Entrepreneurship
Dan Levitan is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Maveron, a consumer focused venture capital firm based in Seattle. Dan founded Maveron in 1998 together with Howard Schultz, the former Chairman & CEO of Starbucks when they noticed a gap in the VC market for high growth consumer businesses. Now on his 7th fund, Maveron manages $1.3 billion in assets under management.
In this episode Dan shares personal thoughts on the evolution of venture capital and fund sizes, how the dynamics of VC and networks are transforming, and why capitalism as it has been practiced needs to be changed and refined. He walks through the thought process of how Maveron’s partnership asked important and tough questions as to how they were going to fulfill the commitment of the Diversity Rider, knowing that it was the “right thing to do'' because the moment for redefining “access” in VC had truly arrived.
Dan Levitan is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Maveron, a consumer focused venture capital firm based in Seattle. Dan founded Maveron in 1998 together with Howard Schultz, the former Chairman & CEO of Starbucks when they noticed a gap in the VC market for high growth consumer businesses. Now on his 7th fund, Maveron manages $1.3 billion in assets under management.
In this episode Dan shares personal thoughts on the evolution of venture capital and fund sizes, how the dynamics of VC and networks are transforming, and why capitalism as it has been practiced needs to be changed and refined. He walks through the thought process of how Maveron’s partnership asked important and tough questions as to how they were going to fulfill the commitment of the Diversity Rider, knowing that it was the “right thing to do'' because the moment for redefining “access” in VC had truly arrived.
28 min