Achieve personal success while advocating for structural change.

Achieve personal success while advocating for structural change.

Achieve personal success while advocating for structural change.

Achieve personal success while advocating for structural change.

A personal mission is the strongest motivation to do the impossible.

A personal mission is the strongest motivation to do the impossible.

A personal mission is the strongest motivation to do the impossible.

A personal mission is the strongest motivation to do the impossible.

A personal mission is the strongest motivation to do the impossible.

A personal mission is the strongest motivation to do the impossible.

Speaking amid a controversy around Robinhood’s decision to temporarily halt trading of GameStop and some other volatile securities, Robinhood’s CEO explores the venture’s business model and mission.

Speaking amid a controversy around Robinhood’s decision to temporarily halt trading of GameStop and some other volatile securities, Robinhood’s CEO explores the venture’s business model and mission.

Speaking amid a controversy around Robinhood’s decision to temporarily halt trading of GameStop and some other volatile securities, Robinhood’s CEO explores the venture’s business model and mission.

Speaking amid a controversy around Robinhood’s decision to temporarily halt trading of GameStop and some other volatile securities, Robinhood’s CEO explores the venture’s business model and mission.

Lightspeed Venture Partners founding partner Ravi Mhatre explains why he’s particularly excited about opportunities in the life sciences over the next two decades. He envisions a future in which computing and data science unlock innumerable genetic puzzles, dramatically accelerating diagnosis, treatment and drug development.

Lightspeed Venture Partners founding partner Ravi Mhatre explains how his parents’ immigrant background impacted his own trajectory. A mindset that embraced and appreciated opportunities, even amid imperfect situations, allowed them to succeed in the United States, and imprinted on him as well.

Computer science is now “the language of technology,” explains Lightspeed Venture Partners founding partner Ravi Mhatre, and studying a technical field like CS can give you an edge in many fields, including venture capital. That sort of technical background, he finds, is especially important for VCs who invest heavily in technology-driven enterprise companies. On the other hand, he adds, there are now plenty of tools that enable less-technical founders and investors to build businesses around web applications and data.