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Being a 4D Thinker, transformative tech meets human evolution, how Korean-American Midwest roots shapes an ecosystem of startups, and human transcendence…

June Choi, CEO of Serval Ventures (evolving the startup success and venture investment model by applying a data-driven experimentation approach, honing talent, and delivering thoughtful and sustained support) joins Julie Chan in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.

In this episode:

• How Choi had as many as five careers, and being a Korean-American immigrant
• Choi was supposed to go to med school, but sees herself as a four-dimensional thinker, see things play out, didn’t want that path
• Figuring what she didn’t want, and her parents disowned her
• She decided to pursue a literature degree, loved reading books, and her father disowned her again
• Took a business minor
• Wanted to be a judge, but didn’t want to go to law school
• Moved to England because they speak English too
• Couldn’t feed herself, depended on Ramen
• Becoming an executive director at just 26 for a non profit
• Got divorced, had a child, had to support child but not do it full time
• Did strategy consulting
• Took professional sacrifices to be home with her child as much as possible
• Decided she is female role model for her daughter
• Then started a company, which was scary
• Choi had resisted being an entrepeneur for a long time, was freeing
• Being an advisor to a startup and they wouldn’t listen
• So, became an investor
• Why aren’t accelerators and venture investing evolving properly?
• As an investor – less tech people in tech companies, business people have an idea, then hire expensive people for a startup, so they have to raise money instead of building company and product and going to market
• Choi focused on the need to keep founders focused, and thus the innovation roadmap developed
• The way different people think, complex vs. linear
• Chan provides an intuitive reading – using play and education
• Facilitator instead of farmer, helping others understand each other, further their visions
• Community watering hole, serenity and togetherness
• Contributing to the farm
• Emerging tech
• How people are evolving