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VC10X - Turning "employees" into "founders" - Rob Liu, Founder, Athena VC

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Episode VC10X - Turning "employees" into "founders" - Rob Liu, Founder, Athena VC

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Rob Liu is the founder of Athena VC, where he is aiming to help 500 founders from developing countries start their businesses by matching their salaries for 6 months.

Rob is also the founder of ContactOut, a bootstrapped email prospecting tool, which has made over $10 million in revenue.

In this episode, we talk about -

- What is Athena VC?

- How they are matching salaries to back high-potential folks to start companies

- What they look for in candidates while evaluating them for the program

- How they help founders find the right thing to work on

- How is the Athena VC program structured?

& lots more

Links:

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Athena VC website - athena.vc

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