Peter Boyce Drove General Catalyst Deal Flow by Organizing Student Entrepreneurs
Spencer Lazar · 20 VC 049: VC is Getting Younger with Spencer Lazar @ General Catalyst Partners · Jun 29, 2015 · at 8:29
Spencer Lazar, Principal at General Catalyst, highlights his colleague Peter Boyce as an example of a young candidate standing out through community organization.
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“And that's what my colleague Peter Boyce did who now works at GC and was really an organizer of young talent, young entrepreneurial energy, and you know, has really been a huge driving force of value for our firm because he's brought a lot of that with him and introduced us to a lot of opportunities.”
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