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Nov. 17, 2020

002: Vineet Shahani on politics as VC, career home runs v. singles, and the benefits of taking a pay cut

002: Vineet Shahani on politics as VC, career home runs v. singles, and the benefits of taking a pay cut

Vineet Shahani is Director, Legal at Google. He went from biglaw to a small fintech company, then moved to Apple, which he left to join Nest as its second attorney before it was acquired by Google. It would be easy to talk just about his successes, but we

Vineet and I talked about:

  • picking the right narrative for your career
  • career home runs v. singles
  • politics as venture capital 
  • how to make losses as useful as wins
  • the benefits of taking a pay cut