Cowboy Ventures founder and managing partner Aileen Lee explains how an intense job as the chief of staff for Gap CEO Mickey Drexler prepared her for a role in venture capital. Working as an associate under Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr, she absorbed the many facets of running a VC firm, and also crucial gained experience as she watched companies that the firm funded either succeed or fail.
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