One year ago, I pressed pause on my side project Voices of Women in Venture, a curated playlist of podcast episodes featuring the top women's voices in venture capital. At that point, I’d shared 165+ episodes, featuring 159 different women in venture capital. I wrote this to share my thought process and roadmap. Now it’s time to press “play” on Phase II.
In “what-ever-normal-world-existed-before-covid,” I commute approx. 22 miles everyday to my office in San Mateo each direction via car. Over the course of a week, that adds up to 220 miles a week in my car. After watching the newest movie version of Emma (2020), I can’t help but think about transportation modes of the late 1700s, early 1800s. What struck me was the volume of traveling scenes. Arriving or departing in horse-drawn carriages: dinners, visits to a friend’s estate, to and from church, off to the ball. We never see the stables or prep to get these horses ready. But we know this time period was SLOW.
Peter Pan has his shadow, I have a Carbon Footprint. Earlier this year, on a Zoom call with one of my Berlin-based founders, I casually asked if he was traveling to SF anytime soon (this was pre-covid-19). He told me he was “watching his carbon footprint” and reducing international air travel as much as possible. It was casual, like saying “no thanks” to dessert after dinner. It caught me off-guard. I started thinking about my CO2 consumption and whether or not I should put myself on a CO2 diet too.
I've been staring at this word "PERK" for the past few days and after a while it started to look weird. I'd type and wonder if I was really spelling it right. I chose it because I was looking for a shorter-one-word term to replace "Deals & Discounts" which was just a lot of letters. As one does (or maybe just me), I started my etymological search to see if this really was the right word to use.
I have an old Polaroid camera that works about 40% of the time. It was a challenge to go from the ease of iPhone photos to attempting to frame a shot that might not even develop properly with the Polaroid camera. Then wait about 15 minutes for the film to develop. Reshoot and try again. The slow shutter speed, one-size-fits-all flash, no way to focus + my unsteady hand made this medium quite frustrating.