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First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Jenny ↗
In their words
you have to have a lot of courage to start a company you don't have to have a lot of brains you have to work really hard but you need a lot of courage
I know so many tech founders that won't go out and talk to customers why because they don't want to hear that the customers don't like what they have
you have to be in the game to get lucky if you're not even in the game if you don't buy the lotto ticket you'll never win
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Quick answers
What did Jenny Yang build?
Metafor Software, which did anomaly detection on data-centre time series and was acquired by Splunk, and Aida Software, which used natural language processing for customer support. Vision Critical acquired Aida's data-science assets in March 2018 and Yang led data science there afterwards.
What are her two cents for founders?
Courage first — the courage to leave a comfortable job, to get up after bad days, and to talk to customers who will tell you your product is no good. Second, luck: as an investor she watched smart, hard-working founders never make it.
What did she do before founding companies?
She was an engineer, then a consultant, then a venture investor for almost ten years backing early-stage Canadian technology companies — the opposite of the usual route into venture.