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Joanna Lord

Sep 10, 2026

3:36
[laughs]
3:36
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3:37
I think that's the, the first pulse sign.
3:39
I mean, uh, genuinely, it's been about 20 years of startups.
3:41
I think, first and foremost, it is just a very fast-paced energy that I enjoy, right? I think, like, you get it.
3:47
Building something is just fun.
3:49
But yeah, I think every single one of those companies, irrelevant of size or category or business model, it was kind of at a point where it needed to tell a better story, where it was, uh, at an inflection point, either zero to one, needed to kind of grow into something new, build a new category like ClassPass, or come into a later stage company like Skyscanner and kind of expand what it offers.
4:57
[laughs]

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