#43: Juliet de Baubigny, Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

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Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Juliet de Baubigny is a senior partner at one of the most influential venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Her focus is to help entrepreneurs recruit the best talent to build the most iconic companies. She’s helped to construct management teams within companies like Google and Amazon,among others. She has also led a number of key initiatives within KPCB including the Kleiner Perkins Women Leaders (KPWL), which helps mentor and develop the next generation of female entrepreneurs. In this episode, de Baubigny talks about being a woman in Silicon Valley, working in the venture capital world and shares her best advice for entrepreneurs. Follow Juliet de Baubigny on Twitter: @JulietdeB1 Learn more about KPCB: kpcb.com No Limits Entrepreneur of the week: Hannah Choi, Co-founder Little Confetti Events Learn more about Little Confetti Events: http://www.littleconfettievents.com/ Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	This is going to sound weird, but I have always thought of myself as a gender-neutral business professional, but I feel very feminine.
0:07.8	I'm happy to stand up and say that I'm a woman.
0:10.1	Do I think the women have to outperform their male counterparts?
0:12.9	No.
0:13.3	I think women have to outperform, period.
0:15.7	From ABC, it's no limits.
0:19.0	I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most influential women playing
0:23.5	at the top of their game, trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there
0:28.7	and all the trade-offs.
0:30.2	Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right
0:34.8	place.
0:36.5	On today's episode of No Limits, how does a venture capitalist
0:40.2	choose where to invest? Meet Juliet de Bobini, a partner at one of the most influential
0:45.8	venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, a place that invested in Google, Amazon, and more than
0:52.2	850 other successes. With her unique role, she's helping
0:56.2	entrepreneurs recruit the best talent, focusing especially on women who right now get only a tiny
1:02.8	fraction of the venture funding. I caught up with her in Sweden. Welcome to No Limits.
1:08.8	Thank you for having me. You're the first female executive from the world of venture
1:13.2	capital that we've had here on the show. And I really admire and find your background particularly
1:19.4	interesting. So you studied business in the UK. I did. Started out at Procter & Gamble, spent many
1:25.1	years in executive search. And now you are a senior partner at
1:29.4	Kleiner Perkins. That's correct. Did you even know as a kid what venture capital was?
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