#38: Steve Pretre - Partner at World Innovation Lab - Building Relationships The Right Way in VC
Highlights: The benefits of always talking to VCs and viewing it as ongoing relationships.Knowing yourself as a founderTransitioning into VC after a long career as a founder and operatorWhat happens when LPs sit in the same office as the GPs and Partners How to best make your way into VCSteve Pretre is a veteran of multiple successful startups with deep operating experience across product development, marketing, and strategic planning.Prior to joining World Innovation Lab, Steve was the co-founder and CEO of Metromile, an early innovator that paved the path for the current wave of insurance startups. He held executive roles at Asurion, leading their mobile applications business unit as the company grew to a multi-billion dollar provider of mobile device insurance. He was the first marketing and product lead at RMS, which developed predictive risk modeling software that became the defacto standard for pricing and transfer of catastrophe risk for the global insurance industry.Steve is responsible for World innovation lab's investments in Peerstreet, Unqork, and Ladder who have together raised over 375 million dollars and beyond that, world innvoation lab has invested in Asana, Truework, and TransferwiseSteve holds an MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar, and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pretre/Website: https://wilab.com/Book recommendations: The Business Model Canvas, Predictably Irrational