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

GenZ VC Founder Meagan Loyst: using Pallet to connect people to high-paying tech and VC jobs

12 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this interview, Meagan Loyst (Speaker A) reflects on how traditional career routes for college graduates—banking, consulting, accounting—are rapidly changing for Gen Z. She emphasizes that education and mentorship are the first steps toward entering venture and tech, describing her organization’s mentorship program as crucial. Loyst also highlights a job board that connects members to venture and tech positions, which is operated through Pallet, a portfolio company of Behind Genius Ventures. She notes that her community was among the first to launch on Pallet, creating "magical moments" where participants discover new possibilities, such as becoming operators after hearing success stories. Beyond professional growth, she stresses the deep friendships formed within the original Zoom cohort of about 30 people, many of whom remain close friends today.

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When I was in college, it was banking, consulting, or accounting. Those were your options. Everything else was just not it. And that's, I think, changing in real time for a lot of people. But step one is education. And so that's why I think the mentorship program is so important. And then other things, right? Like we have a job board that helps connect people to jobs in venture and tech. Is that run through Pallet? It is run through Pallet, a Behind Genius Ventures portfolio company, I believe. So yeah, love. We were one of the first communities to go live on Palette, which is awesome. And so all of the different initiatives that we do just create these magical moments for people where like you're either learning about venture, but more importantly, seeing what's possible for yourself, whether it's, okay, I want to become an operator because I've heard from XYZ who was an operator first and did. So I would say it's the magical moments, but also just like the friendships like that from that initial group of like 30 people on that Zoom call. Like I've— many of those people are like my absolute best friends now, like people that I get dinner with all the time. And I think