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20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
Ben Lerer is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures and co-founder & CEO of Thrillist Media Group. Ben was among Ernst & Young's 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winners, Forbes list of "Most Powerful CEOs Under 40", " Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 5 Entrepreneurs of the Year," and Silicon Alley Insider's "100 Coolest People in Tech". Ben is also an active mentor for NYC Venture Fellows, TechStars and E[nstitute].
In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Ben came to found Thrillist and then join the founding team at Lerer Hippeau?
2.) How did Ben's mentality shift from investing…
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