You really do learn more from failure than success, but also you got to give yourself a little bit of time to sort of heal before you can reflect and really get the insights from those failures.

But if you don't do it, you're really missing out on a big opportunity.

From ABC, it's no limits.

I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women

playing at the top of their game, trying to demystify success and what it really takes

to get there, and all the tradeoffs. whether you're looking for answers or you just want to

hear a good story, you're in the right place. On today's episode, she is one of the most powerful

venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, named to the Forbes Midas list seven times. That is the

list that ranks the world's top venture capitalists

before founding her own company. She was the first female investor and then first female partner

at Excel Partners and an original investor in a little 10-person startup called Facebook.

Today, Teresa Gow is the founder of Aspect Ventures, which is a VC that you

heard Melinda Gates talk about with us here on No Limits a few weeks ago. In my conversation with

Teresa today, we talk about her background immigrating to the U.S., how she found her way to venture

capital, and eventually made the leap to found her own company.

Plus, her advice to other female founders.

Here's Teresa Gow.

Teresa Gow, welcome to No Limits.

Thanks for having me, Rebecca.

I'm thrilled to have you here with us.

You have a fascinating backstory growing up early years in Indonesia, moving here to Buffalo when you were three years old,

and now you're one of the most powerful VCs in the country. What a backstory to lead into that.

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