I was carrying Steve Jobs bags on the Apple IPO Road Show.

It was amazing.

It was amazing because he's such a phenomenal entrepreneur and such a life force that I think it was transformative for me to see somebody who was so young, only a year older than I was, who had such conviction.

And it got me incredibly excited about working with entrepreneurs.

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, we're talking with a veteran from the world of venture capital, Annie Lamont.

She has more than 30 years of experience in the

industry. She's currently the co-founder and managing partner of Oak HCFT, which is a VC firm that

manages more than a billion dollars in assets. So often here on No Limits, we hear from

entrepreneurs about funding and how they got the money.

So I thought, let's bring in someone from the other side to hear it from their perspective.

You're about to hear how you can break into the VC world, when to pursue those VC funds,

they're not right for every company, and some of the biggest mistakes that founders make when pitching their companies.

Here's Annie Lamont.

Annie Lamont, welcome to No Limits.

Thanks, Rebecca.

Great to be here.

I'm so happy to have you here with us because we talk so much to founders about raising money and what that's like, raising venture capital.

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