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BioVenture VoiCes Episode 35: INITIATE Ventures' Jessica Owens

Feb 23
1 min read

Jessica Owens discusses the many experiences she has had in her career, including working on the venture side at Kleiner Perkins and Versant Ventures and on the operating side at Genomic Health and Grail. She highlights the value of VCs being able to understand how operators like CEOs think, and describes the type of investing INITIATE focuses on.




Chapters

Intro and early life - 0:49

First jobs / Wall Street - 13:25

Kleiner Perkins - 17:04

Kauffman Fellow - 24:14

Versant Ventures - 27:36

Grail - 41:30

INITIATE Ventures - 49:40

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