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

What did Lightspeed Partner Mercedes Bent learn from Lightspeed Partner Jeremy Liew?

3 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Mercedes Bent credits Jeremy Liew with extraordinary availability and hands-on mentorship, reshuffling his schedule to answer questions the next day. Liew encouraged Lightspeed to enter Latin America despite having no prior investments there, backing the move by trusting newly hired talent.

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Going back to like the first thing that you said about him, like having time, what did you mean by that? Literally, like, I don't know how he did it, but he just had a lot of time to answer questions and like somehow magician moved around his schedule to just always make time like the next day. I don't know how. That's awesome. I love that. And another thing I think that he also did, sorry, that was like really supportive of like newer investors. Was, you know, I remember I was pretty interested in Latin America when I first joined. And him and also my partner Alex Tausig and also my partner Nicole Quinn, they were all very supportive of like, yeah, look into this brand new geo. Lightspeed hadn't invested there before. And I remember, you know, if someone would ever question, well, like, well, why are we looking into this market? Like, he would always say, like, we hired this person who's really smart and really competent.