Shan-Lyn Ma & Anu Duggal: Startups and the Women Who Fund Them

Zola co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma and Female Founders Fund co-founder Anu Duggan talk about what it’s like to seek investment capital as a startup founder, and what kind of information goes into the educated gamble that is venture capitalism.In many ways, venture capital has become the ground zero of FOMO and FOBO- it’s fast paced, involving huge amounts of money, and it seems like every moment a previously unknown company (invariably led by a plucky 20-year old) is valued at millions or billions of dollars overnight- opportunities that YOU missed to become an overnight millionaire. It’s a deadly explosion of FO.

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