Michelle You

Co-founder & CEO, Supercritical · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michelle You co-founded the live music discovery platform Songkick and co-created the tech job fair Silicon Milkroundabout. She later served as a venture partner at LocalGlobe before co-founding and leading Supercritical, a climate software and carbon-removal marketplace helping businesses reach net zero.

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Opinion

You: Silicon Valley is a cultural wasteland lacking non-tech social variety

“I think the flip side of that is it is like I personally find it to be a cultural wasteland. Anytime I go over there after I'm there for two weeks, I'm craving going to a museum or being able to see that film that just came out or having more variety in my soc…”

Michelle You Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:57 a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything

Insight

You: Advice from big-company executives is usually irrelevant for early-stage startups

“But I think a lot of the problems you face as a startup are inherent to the nature of starting a company and learning how to grow a business. I think the kind of advice you might get from somebody who comes from a big company might not be relevant to you, so t…”

Michelle You Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:42 a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything

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You: London Has More Culture, Fashion, and Music Startups Than Silicon Valley

“And similarly, I think the reason why there's so many culture related startups in London is because that's a very London thing about fashion and, you know, media and music as well. I think there's a lot more startups in London focusing on those problems as opp…”

Michelle You Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:25 a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything

Insight

Michelle You: London founders naturally build for global markets from day one

“I think in America, I can say it because I'm American, it's really easy to just think that American, America's all there is, because it's dominant force. It's where a lot of, you know, dominant force in culture and technology, and it's easy to just think about…”

Michelle You Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:23 a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything	Jan 2, 2019	5m

Michelle You

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