VC Platform Roles Offer Creative Control and an Engaged Audience
Jay Acunzo · 20 VC 035: The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Startups with Jay Acunzo, VP of Platform @ NextView Ventures · May 11, 2015 · at 5:58
Jay Acunzo, VP of Platform at NextView Ventures, reflects on why the platform role aligns with his primary career fulfillment criteria.
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“I kind of want three things in my career and that's the ability to create things, creative control over those things, and then an audience that cares. And the platform role at a VC is like the perfect blend of those three for me right now.”
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