{"id":37204,"date":"2025-10-31T20:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/investor-keith-rabois-advice-to-people-who-want-to-break-into-vc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:21:52","slug":"investor-keith-rabois-advice-to-people-who-want-to-break-into-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/investor-keith-rabois-advice-to-people-who-want-to-break-into-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"Investor Keith Rabois&#8217; advice to people who want to break into VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6904fef2599d46a4ccc1420d?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Keith Raibos\"\/><figcaption>Keith Rabois shared advice for young professionals on &quot;The Rise&quot; podcast on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan SMIALOWSKI \/ AFP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Keith Rabois shared advice for young professionals interested in VC on &quot;The Rise&quot; podcast.<\/li>\n<li>Rabois said young professionals should first create a startup or company to gain experience.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I think it&#039;s a bad idea for almost anybody right out of school to want to be a VC,&quot; he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Longtime VC Keith Rabois has some advice for young professionals hoping to break into the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think they should either join a startup or found a company with almost no exceptions \u2014 especially if they&#039;re technical,&quot; Rabois said Thursday on &quot;The Rise&quot; podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You&#039;d ask the question, like, &#039;Why are they interested in venture?&#039; and usually when I meet people like that, the answers are pretty superficial. Most people don&#039;t even understand what venture really is versus what it looks like on TV,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rabois said it&#039;s essential for newcomers to either learn how to build their own companies or watch others do the same.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;First of all, it&#039;ll make you more confident that you&#039;re making the right decision. This is a 20-year job minimum. Secondly, you&#039;ll be better suited to perform the job. And third, you&#039;ll have more credibility, which also helps you perform the job,&quot; Rabois said.<\/p>\n<p>Rabois is a managing director at Khosla Ventures and has served on the boards of several companies, including Reddit and Yelp. He&#039;s also the cofounder and chairman of Opendoor Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>During the podcast interview, Rabois said it&#039;s a &quot;bad idea&quot; for new graduates to want to become venture capitalists right after school.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Doesn&#039;t mean you can&#039;t be an associate somewhere. You know, spend two years watching and learning, A: Is this right for me? Because you&#039;ll see how the industry really works,&quot; Rabois said. &quot;Then, use the platform and vantage point of seeing 100 or 200 portfolio companies and choose the best company for you to join.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Then, if you really enjoy the experience of working a venture and think it&#039;s what you want to do, then doubling or tripling down after you&#039;ve built something is a very good move,&quot; Rabois added. &quot;If you do this right out of school, you know, by the time you&#039;re 30, you&#039;ll be you have maybe two shots at a startup,&quot; Rabois said.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted for comment, Rabois pointed Business Insider toward a blog post written by Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov, who previously shared five lessons he learned from Rabois, including on how to become a VC. Asparouhov writes that it boils down to: becoming a junior generalist, gaining experience at a &quot;high-growth&quot; startup, allocating resources with VCs, and learning from the best.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Fundamentally, in order to get a job in venture, a current VC needs to think you will be a good VC,&quot; Asparouhov wrote. &quot;They need to think you have relevant expertise and they need to think you have great judgment. There are no shortcuts to developing expertise or judgment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Rabois shared advice for young professionals on &quot;The Rise&quot; podcast on Thursday. Brendan SMIALOWSKI \/ AFP Keith Rabois shared advice for young professionals interested in VC on &quot;The Rise&quot; podcast. Rabois said young professionals should first create a startup or company to gain experience. &quot;I think it&#039;s a bad idea for almost anybody right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}