Julia Lipton
by Parker · 16 things on Twos
- Investing in the future of wellness and work
- Menlo Park, CA
- julia@awesomepeople.ventures
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/julialipton/
- https://twitter.com/JuliaLipton
- Founder of Awesome People Ventures
- Early stage fund
- Health, happiness, and productivity
- Backed by Marc Andreessen, Tom Lee (founder of One Medical) and top founders and operators
- Founded Soundboard: advising venture-backed startups
- Go-to-market strategy, team building, hitting revenue targets
- Led growth and product teams at companies like OneMedical and Quixey
- Invested in Mem, uses Mem for her notes
- In the last hundred years, our society has not evolved as fast as our technology.
- The creation of social media has allowed us to remain in contact with more people than ever before, and also ushered in a generational wave of teenage anxiety and loneliness.
- In the coming years, our society’s relationship to wellness and work will evolve dramatically as the next generation of founders build amazing companies that solve the most complex problems of our time - problems of human health and happiness.