Meagan Loyst (VC @ Lerer Hippeau)

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This week we had on Meagan Loyst, a VC at Lerer Hippeau based in New York.

Lerer Hippeau is one of the most active and well-respected early-stage venture funds in the world, and within her role, Meagan focuses primarily on Seed and Series A investments in consumer, digital media, e-commerce, emerging tech, and enterprise software. Meagan recently did some interesting work around Gen Z trends, and after interviewing 71 other young investors from around the world, she published some of here findings here.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Meagan's path into early-stage investing

• Why she decided spend so much time understanding Gen Z investment preferences

• Her main takeaways and companies to watch based on her findings

Check out the full episode below:

💰 An angel investor documented her returns and takeaways for other investors

📊 Tomasz Tunguz shared his frustration with the inaccuracy of VC funding reports

💡 Great thread on how funding affects team, success, and product-market fit

⭐️ The hidden motivation behind angel investing

👩‍💻 Mailchimp shared email marketing benchmarks by industry

💥 Amazing piece by Lenny Rachitsky on pricing your SaaS product

• Greycroft is hiring an investment associate in NYC.

• Touchdown Ventures is looking for an associate in Philly.

• Fin VC is looking for a technical associate in either NYC or SF.

• UP.Partners is hiring an investor in Santa Monica.