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Jun 22, 2026
Alina Klarner - Building Impact Startups, Rethinking VC & Avoiding *ssholes
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Hugo PaquinHOST
But maybe to pick up on that 2020 moment where you left private equity and sold your belongings and packed up for the impact.

Alina KlarnerGUEST
I consider it an angel ticket to really take that leap because I think Putting the first euro, pound, dollar on the table is the hardest and it almost doesn't matter whether it's one or a million is that first step, right? And it wasn't a moment, it was a process.

Alina KlarnerGUEST
So I basically started, I had advised private equity for a really long time working at PwC.

Alina KlarnerGUEST
doing big transactions, M&A, financing, refinancing, all the way to restructuring and insolvency and sort of got to the point where I was in the companies doing hands-on work as interim finance director, transformation director, and it felt like I was doing all the work and the private equity guys got to make all the decisions.
17 MINS LATER

Kyrylo KorsunHOST
We need to get better at selling stuff and, you know, like creating this FOMO and especially probably, I don't know, would you say that is just like an impact thing? So where you rely more on this human connection as opposed to like other startup sectors, you know, where still if you're building a SaaS company or if you're building an AI, you would still hear a lot that you need to create that FOMO, right? To raise capital.