Craig Vachon
Founder and Managing Partner
Chowdahead Growth Fund
Education
Western State College
1983
Emerson College
B.S., Communication Studies
1986Emerson College
M.A., Business Communications
1987Podcasts
41:51125: What It’s Like To Build A Venture Capital Fund w/ Craig Vachon, Chowdahead Growth Fund [Main T4C episode]
Craig Vachon is the founder and managing partner of Chowdahead Growth Fund, a seed investment firm based in California. Vachon has dedicated the last 12 years to investing in companies whose mission is to make the world a better place, profitably. One of the first companies Chowdahead invested in almost..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“I had no clue what I was going to do. I knew that I liked the art of persuasion. I knew that academia was intriguing, but not necessarily what I wanted to do solely.”
Best Career Advice
“Sometimes you have to raise your hand for the really ugly job and say, all right, nobody wants to make this presentation; I’m going to make it.”
Career Challenge
“We were competing against a company in Tokyo called Docomo. Docomo had 60,000 cell sites in the Tokyo metropolitan district, and we had 12. And cell sites are really expensive, especially in real estate driven markets like Tokyo. So I knew we just weren’t going to be successful.”
Skills
Start-ups, Strategy, Mobile Devices, Product Marketing, Venture Capital, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Development, User Experience, Product Development, Strategic Partnerships, Leadership, Management, Privacy Issues, Creativity
Professional Interests
Marcelo Claure, Larry Fink, Sallie Krawcheck, Harvard Business Review, CNN Business, BBC News, The Great Reset of Business,
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