Lightspeed Partner Mercedes Bent on Her Journey into Venture, Recommendations for Founders Raising in 2023, and Tips for Investors in the Current Market | Seed To Harvest Ep52

Today, I’m joined by Mercedes Bent, an investor on the early stage team at Lightspeed with a focus on consumer fintech/crypto in LATAM and the USA. She is an investor in Forage, Stori, Flink, Outschool, Beek, Magic Eden, Hawku, Fan Controlled Sports, and more. Mercedes co-leads Lightspeed’s LATAM region and the Scout Fund (angel fund). In 2016, she was named a 40 Under 40 for Tech Diversity in Silicon Valley. Previously, she was a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Asset Management division on a private wealth team where she managed $1.75 billion in wealth for high net worth and institutional clients.

Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

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00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Mercedes Bent
05:03 A change in perspective
10:09 Lessons from Jeremy Liew
15:39 Bringing emotion to work
20:04 Changes in the seed stage
25:20 Taking metrics out of the equation

Show notes:
Mercedes Bent | https://twitter.com/mercebent

Lightspeed | https://lsvp.com/

Goldman Sachs | https://www.goldmansachs.com/

Jeremy Liew | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyliew/

Alex Taussig | https://twitter.com/ataussig?lang=en

Nicole Quinn | https://twitter.com/Nik_Quinn

Beek | https://beek.io/en

Pamela Esteva | https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelavaldesesteva/?originalSubdomain=mx