Ashley Paston (Principal @ Bain Capital Ventures)

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This week we had on Ashley Paston (@ashleypaston) with Bain Capital Ventures.

Bain is a multi-strategy fund with offices New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Ashley sits in New York on the fintech team at Bain, and she primarily focuses on venture and growth-stage opportunities in the space.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Fintech 2.0 and the shift towards embedded finance

• evaluating proximity to buyers in a remote world

• navigating around long sales cycles within financial services

Check out the full episode below:

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📊 Good resource on how to measure community engagement

💭 Mental models for idea generation

🧠 Coolest Things I Learned in 2020 - David Perell

💰 NFX’s non-obvious guide to fundraising

🔮 Cool tool to help startups find their next investor (Shoutout Austin for building)

• Greylock is looking for a chief of staff in SF.

• ff Venture Capital is looking for an associate in NYC.

• Third Prime is looking for an associate in NYC.

• Forté Ventures is looking for an associate in Silicon Valley.

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