Scott Sandell - Experience vs Potential at NEA

Scott Sandell is the executive chairman and chief investment officer at New Enterprise Associates, a legendary venture capital firm managing $35 billion in assets. Scott has spent nearly three decades at NEA making bets on companies that didn't yet exist in any meaningful form like video conferencing, commission-free trading, solid oxide fuel cells, and now AI. Few investors can claim to have sat on the boards of WebEx, Robinhood, Bloom Energy, Cloudflare and Salesforce. Fewer still can say they've watched all of them get built from the inside, through the fights, the regulatory crises, and the near-death moments. This is a discussion about what that actually looks like.

Scott is Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of NEA. He previously held the role of CEO, and prior to that, of Managing General Partner. Since joining the firm in 1996, Scott has led investments in a wide range of technology companies and has played a role in many industry-transforming businesses, including Bloom Energy, Cloudflare, Robinhood, Salesforce, Tableau, and Workday. Outside of NEA, Scott is actively involved with the National Venture Capital Association and is a founding director of the organization's nonprofit, Venture Forward. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford, where he teaches a course on principled entrepreneurship.

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