A fellow finance friend, Jon Joseph, sent me this video on the day I wrote about jargon in healthcare IT. I had been thinking I really had to write the same article over again for venture capital, but Kate Imbach and Tom Conrad beat me to it with video and a perfect vibe. I swear to God if you sit at any Starbucks in Santa Clara County this is exactly what you will hear. And with the same inflection but probably not as good a head of hair.
We of Silicon Valley and related Annexes (SF, Marin, etc.) sound exactly like this and I am sure that we make everyone else in the country want to barf.
“It’s like Pandora for cats…”
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“It’s like Instagram for hamburgers…”
“I already re-blogged that and re-tweeted that…”
It would be funny if it weren’t so true. I saw another article this morning reporting some of the gobbledygook speak uttered at the recent TechCrunch meeting. If you want to see English as a second language in action, read THIS and don’t forget to read the comments section too. My personal favorite is this one: “We don’t measure our success by financial results.” Yeah, and I am guessing you won’t be measuring your success by succeeding either. Just saying.
Definitely worth checking out, particularly if you or anyone you love actually believes in subject-verb agreement and lives here in the land of “Creovation” (creativity + innovation=are you kidding me?). Hilarious. My call to action: OCCUPY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEOPLE!
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Lisa Suennen has spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur, venture investor and advisor in the healthcare industry. She currently serves as Senior Managing Director at GE Ventures, leading the firm’s healthcare venture fund. Lisa is also co-founder of CSweetener, a not-for-profit company focused on matching women in and nearing the healthcare C-Suite with mentors who have been there and wish to give back. She is a member of the faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of
Business, where for 10 years she has taught classes on venture capital and the changing healthcare economy.
Prior to joining GE Ventures, Lisa operated Venture Valkyrie Consulting for 3 years, advising large corporations around corporate venture capital, new business creation and digital health strategy. Prior to that she spent 15 years as a Partner at Psilos Group, a successful healthcare-focused venture capital firm. Lisa is currently a Board Member of Evidation Health, Health Reveal, Gravie, the Dignity Health Foundation, and Heart To Heart International. She is also on the Advisory Boards of the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund, the
American Heart Association Innovation Think Tank, global digital health organization HealthXL and NASA’s Translational Research Institute. Lisa is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute’s
Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Through her Venture Valkyrie media company, Lisa writes a widely read blog on healthcare and healthcare investing at http://venturevalkyrie.com . She published her
first book in 2013: Tech Tonics, Can Passionate Entrepreneurs Heal Healthcare with Technology, coauthored with Dr. David Shaywitz. Together they also host a popular podcast, also called Tech Tonics, focused on the people and passion at the intersection
of technology and health.
Lisa an M.A. in political science, a B.A. in political science and a B.A. in mass communications, all from the University of California, Berkeley.
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