Lightspeed Venture Partners

This week, Lightspeed hosted our first "Building Tomorrow's Boardroom Today" event with the mission to empower people of color and women on boards. Thanks to John W. Thompson, Robin Washington, Mike Smith, and Elena Gomez for sharing their board journeys with us. Decisions made in the boardroom have a huge impact on your company, community, and the tech ecosystem at large. It’s critical we do our part to get under-represented groups a seat at the table. @ The Battery

Lady Gaga's HAUS LABORATORIES is officially available to pre-order...head to HausLabs.com or Amazon.com (for Prime members) if you haven't already! #proudinvestors #notjustanotherbeautycompany #HAUSLABS

If I look at my companies, it's 75 percent female founders. We have a letter that we've sent to our portfolio companies, and every single one of my companies has signed, saying that for every single executive hire or board member they bring on, they will consider all underrepresented groups before making that hire. You learn and grow through being around people who are different from you, whether that's around the boardroom table or around the partner table at Lightspeed. If you want to feel inspired, read this @hollywoodreporter profile of Lightspeed Partner #NicoleQuinn ASAP.

Our first Negotiation Summit co-hosted with #ANGELS at Twitter this week was a success! Read more about it and how we’re working to close #TheGapTable here: https://medium.com//highlights-from-lightspeeds-first-nego @ Twitter Headquarters, San Francisco, California

The #MAKERS 2019 Conference is officially a wrap! Proud to be a part of the @makerswomen community alongside portfolio company @rothys and more.

When we’re not obsessing about investing, we’re obsessing about hiring. We're thrilled to welcome Jana Messerschmidt, Merci Victoria Grace, Ashley Brasier, Neetzan Zimmerman, Jerry Ye, and Jay Madheswaran to the team. Read more from Chris Schaepe and Jeremy Liew (links below): https://bit.ly/2L16ps3 https://bit.ly/2PlIOmg