Heidi Roizen: On Startup Governance and The Startup Solution.
Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Heidi Roizen, a venture capitalist, corporate director and ‘recovering’ entrepreneur. She’s a partner at Threshold Ventures and a corporate director for Planet PBC (NYSE:PL), Upside Foods and Polarr. She also leads Stanford’s Threshold Venture Fellows Program in the Management Science and Engineering department and serves on the Advisory Councils for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Stanford Technology Ventures. This is the second episode that I record with Heidi, the first one was on E6 in June of 2020 where we talked about her personal and professional background and other board matters involving both public and private companies. Heidi has spent decades in the tech startup world, the first dozen years as an entrepreneur herself, and since then, 25 years as a venture capitalist. Heidi has served on over 40 boards, from seed stage to public companies. In this podcast, we focus on startup governance and her new podcast The Startup Solution, where she tackles the make-or-break challenges that startups face, offering clear advice on how to survive and thrive in an early-stage company. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can also contribute as a Patron on the link patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod and you can subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com