Lessons for entrepreneurs from working in Big Tech - Amy Sun, Cofounder at Briefly.AI

The Jennifer Kamara Podcast

Amy and I discuss the lessons she learned from working in some of tech’s most notable companies, as well as her time investing as the first female growth partner at Sequoia. She describes how she applied these to entrepreneurship in building an AI compnay, and we talk about what lessons are critical to founders.

Connect with Amy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunamy/

Mentioned in this episode: https://www.brieflyai.com/

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[0:00] Intro
[00:55] Amy’s formative experiences
[4:25] An interest in technology stemming from growing up when the iPhone came out, followed years later by uber and other tech innovations that transformed how we live day to day
[11:19] Lessons from working in Growth Marketing at Uber
[17:58] Lessons from working as a Product Manager at Facebook
[22:29] Cultures at Facebook and Uber
[24:56] Lessons from growth investing at Sequoia
[30:05] Lessons from entrepreneurship - crucial advice to to founders on what to prioritize
[36:39] Pivoting
[40:45] Revisiting your relationship with failure and making it a positive one because in failure lies the growth and lessons to make you and your product better
[42:02] Mastering the skill of ruthless prioritization and being a founder mom
[50:35] What’s important to Amy these days