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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. We recently led a large seed round for an autonomous vehicle company called Optimus Ride.