Inside Facebook & Pinterest's growth machines - with Cat Lee(Partner at Maveron, ex Facebook & Pinterest)

My guest today is Cat Lee. Cat Lee is the newest partner at Maveron, a $160MM consumer-tech fund, primarily focused on funding hyper-growth startups at the series A and seed rounds. Cat has had a long history of working on some groundbreaking growth projects - and taking huge leaps in her own career. She worked on the Facebook platform team starting in 2008, and helped drive the adoption of Open Graph, which drove some breakout growth for Facebook outside of its own platform. She then joined Pinterest in 2012 as the Head of Growth, and helped drive 3x growth in MAUs for the then fledgling platform - and set it on the path to scale & sustainability. After working on growth & marketing at Pinterest for over 4 years, she transitioned to being the Head of Culture at Pinterest, in which capacity she did some very interesting & tremendously impactful work, before she moved to being a VC at Maveron Partners earlier this year. In this fascinating & wide-ranging conversation, we talk not only about Cat's unconventional career choices but also explore the elements that made Facebook and Pinterest's growth machines as powerful as they were. We talk about the gender diversity problem in venture capital - and how Maveron's approach has yielded dramatic results. Cat has had so many dimensions to her work and career - and all of these make this a fascinating conversation.

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Inside Facebook & Pinterest's growth machines - with Cat Lee(Partner at Maveron, ex Facebook & Pinterest) is an episode from The How Things Grow Podcast by Shamanth Rao.

This episode is 49:30 long.

This episode was published on Apr 1, 2019.

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