Ernestine Fu is General Partner at Brave Capital. Over the past decade, she has worked across the full spectrum of startup investing, from angel investing, to VC funds for early and growth stage companies, and even negotiating mergers and acquisitions. Alongside her role at Brave Capital, she is also a Venture Partner at ALP, where she started her venture career.

Ernestine was recognized on the inaugural Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 list, the Vanity Fair Next Establishment list, and the Business Insider Silicon Valley 100 list. She is both a Kauffman Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow. She co-authored two books: “Civic Work, Civic Lessons” and “Renewed Energy”. She completed her bachelor’s, master’s, Ph.D. and an MBA degree at Stanford University. And She is an inventor on numerous granted or in-process tech patents.

You can follow Ernestine on Twitter and LinkedIn.

In today's episode with Ernestine:

1. How the combination of academic and business careers help in Venture Capital and provides access to cutting edge technologies.

2. The top three things to work on as an aspiring VC.

3. The lack of diversity and underrepresented fund managers and founders in the VC industry, and how to be more inclusive.

4. Why and How VC Firms are now looked at as investable companies.

5. How to predict the next big thing in tech, and what exactly are "Decisive" technologies.

6. Disrupting the VC model and the future of VC in the next 5-10 years.

VC Evolve Podcast is hosted by VCpreneur: Ahmad Takatkah.