Podcast #108 | Heidi Roizen on Startup Governance and The Startup Solution.

In episode #108 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Heidi Roizen, a partner at Threshold Ventures and a corporate director. She also leads the Stanford Threshold Venture Fellows Program and serves on the Advisory Councils for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and STVP - the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.

In this episode, Evan and Heidi talk about startup governance and Heidi’s new podcast ‘The Startup Solution’, where she tackles the make-or-break challenges that startups face, offering clear advice on how to survive and thrive in an early-stage company.

They address some of the following topics:

👉 Boardroom blow-ups and board dynamics in startups.
👉 Down-rounds & secondaries.
👉 Some guiding principles for angel investments.
👉 Differences between pure venture investors and corporate venture investors (strategic investors).
👉 The role of independent directors in startups.

*This is the second podcast episode that Evan has recorded with Heidi, the first one was E6 on June 2020 where they talked about board matters involving both public and private companies.

You can listen to the episode directly in the Boardroom Governance Podcast website (where you can find all the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google and Amazon.

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