Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ernestine Fu is managing general partner of venture capital firm Brave Capital. Over the past decade, Fu has worked across the startup ecosystem, including negotiating merger and acquisition agreements, organizing SPVs for later-stage companies, angel investing in and advising companies that have since been acquired, and advising banks on venture debt. Alongside her role at Brave Capital, she is also a Venture Partner at Alsop Louie Partners. In this presentation and conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Fu inspires students and aspiring entrepreneurs by sharing things she wished she knew before coming to Stanford as a student.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you by Stanford Ecor.
0:07.0	Welcome to this week's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar. As you guys all know, ETL is brought to you by STVP,
0:15.0	the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering at Stanford, and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:22.6	I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:26.6	and the Director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups.
0:29.6	And today, we are thrilled to welcome Ernestine Fu to ETL.
0:34.6	I've often said in the past that we like all of our ETL speakers, but it is a special treat when we get to invite back one of Stanford's own to ETL. And Ernestine is Stanford's own not once over, not twice over, but four times over. Ernestine has a bachelor's and a master's degree in engineering from Stanford, as well as a PhD in engineering from Stanford,
0:55.2	and an MBA from Stanford.
0:57.5	And she gained fame as an undergrad
1:00.2	when she was recognized as being the youngest
1:02.4	venture capitalist in America.
1:03.9	When as a sophomore, not too long ago, at Stanford,
1:08.6	she was balancing both a full load of classes and being a venture capitalist that Alsop Louis partners.
1:13.6	And she was even on the cover of Forbes magazine as she was closing seed rounds.
1:18.6	And that early foray into venture capital foreshadowed the path that Ernestine is on now.
1:24.6	Ernestine today is the managing general partner of the venture capital firm Brave Capital.
1:29.9	Brave Capital originated from a network of veteran families, public service leaders,
1:34.3	and philanthropists supporting the next generation of tech companies.
1:38.3	And over the past decade, Ernestine has worked across the startup ecosystem,
1:42.3	from negotiating M&A merger and acquisition agreements
1:45.0	to organizing special purpose vehicles or SPVs for later stage investments and angel investing,
1:52.0	advising companies that have been acquired and basically working across the venture map.
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