Founding Partner, Susa Ventures
Leo was the 2nd engineering hire at Linkedin, early engineer at Factual, and an ex-Googler, specializing in big data and machine learning. He placed 5th in ‘01 Top Coder Invitational programming competition and was a member of Caltech's world finalist ACM programming team.
Technical VCs get real about what it actually takes to raise money as an engineer-founder — why patents and "proprietary data" matter far less than execution, how to treat sales like a recruiting funnel, and why brutal honesty about your product's current state beats an oversold vision every time.
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