Maqubela limits VC dinners, conferences, and travel to prioritize home life
Kanyi Maqubela · 20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade! · Dec 7, 2015 · at 18:43
Kanyi Maqubela, partner at Collaborative Fund, discusses his approach to networking and balancing venture capital commitments with family life.
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“And so the intimate dinners with other VCs, and the events, and the summit series, and the conferences, and the stuff that requires either being on a plane, or being outside of my home, I tend to Personally, just limit, or if not limit, be really, really, really prescriptive about when I participate, because I value my in-person time at home too much, and so that's why I'm ridiculously active on Twitter, to the point of it being an addiction.”
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