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Jeremy Levine

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Jeremy Seth Levine is a venture capitalist born in 1974. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a BS in Computer Science and Economics, and worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. and an associate at AEA Investors from 1995 to 1999, when he joined internet company Dash. He joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2001 and led the company’s investments in Yelp and LinkedIn. He has also served on the boards of Pinterest.com, Wikia, GraceNote, Soap.com, Diapers.com, Onestop, Shopify, and other startups. He is married with three children, and is based in Larchmont, N.Y., and Silicon Valley.

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9 Apr, 2014

Forbes interview

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In an interview with Forbes magazine, Levine talks about how he finds successful entrepreneurs:

There isn’t a goto way of assessing and saying, ‘Ok, here are the six criteria this founder matches.’ But, in almost all cases, there is something exceptional about the person. And sometimes it’s not one person, sometimes it’s two, and they have this incredible way of complimenting each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeW9BwF4aNc