Hi all, I have the long-term goal of ultimately getting into a good Venture Capital firm at Associate level. I currently work at Amazon, did my undergrad and Masters in Economics at LSE. I have 2 main questions:
1) Is it even possible/feasible to pivot from Amazon to VC given my background?
2) I have the option to internally transfer in Amazon to a product/program manager role or AWS in a start-up Manager role - which of these would be best to maximise my chances of eventually getting into VC?

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There’s a bunch of things you can do at VC shops, I interviewed with gryphon investors for a role that was basically just chatting with firms they were interested in, understanding their growth/structure and business model, then providing my input on if I thought it was going to be a good add or not.

Ultimately didn’t take it as I switched teams at google and am trying to get to GV, but yeah it’s feasible. Easy? No. Feasible, yes.

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To GV? Probably slim to none. Best path forward for what you mentioned is trying to get in to the One Google VC org where we pair VC with startups. Then lateraling from there. You’d have a solid chance at making it to the One Google VC team though.

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