Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

GenZ VC Founder Meagan Loyst on investing in people you believe in

13 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this interview, 25‑year‑old venture capital founder Meagan Loyst explains why she is deeply passionate about being a Gen Z‑focused VC and how that passion fuels her work. She highlights the rapid expansion of her personal brand, growing from about 50 Twitter followers in 2020 to nearly 40,000 today, and describes how this visibility has opened doors to high‑profile media opportunities, including multiple appearances on Bloomberg and Fox Business. Loyst expresses a clear preference for in‑studio interviews over virtual formats, noting that the live‑TV environment, once terrifying, now feels energizing. She recounts overcoming an earlier fear of public speaking by delivering a valedictorian speech to a 2,000‑person audience in high school, illustrating how early high‑pressure experiences helped shape her confidence today.

I'm 25 years old, so this is the perfect time to be pouring myself into anything and everything that I'm insanely passionate about. And luckily that is Gen Z VCs, right? And so if I didn't love it, I wouldn't do it. But it's super fun for me and it's also created a bunch of amazing and incredible opportunities, right? Like I went from, again, I had 50 followers on Twitter in 2020. Now I have almost 40,000 followers on Twitter.
You've done some like crazy like press stuff too. I remember we were talking about that last time I was in New York and I was like, I was like, doing live TV is so nerve-wracking because you're just like, it's— well, I guess you were in studio, right, for that?
I was. Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah. I've been on Bloomberg, I think, 3 times now, and I was on Fox Business, and I think the in-studio experience is definitely my favorite versus doing it on Zoom. But I found that I really like it. I actually used to be terrified of public speaking. I was the valedictorian of my high school, and I remember I had to give a speech to 2,000 people.