Colonna: VC Success Was Driven by Overcoming Childhood Feelings of Poverty
Jerry Colonna · Jerry Colonna: The CEO Whisperer · Oct 17, 2023 · at 15:48
Jerry Colonna reflects on how his former venture capital career and external identity were shaped by childhood conditioning.
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“See, it was really important to me to be perceived as a financial wizard, as a really successful VC. It was really important because it overcame decades of a sense of poverty that I grew up with. I had to be willing to be poor in order to be free.”
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