ESS Lecture Preview | Venture Capital, Big Tech, and the Startup Ecosystem

For those aspiring to enter the science-and-technology innovation ecosystem, venture capital, innovation departments of tech companies, and startup accelerators are several highly attractive career paths. Drawing on the speaker’s frontline experience across venture capital, Amazon Web Services’ startup ecosystem, and Volcano Engine, this sharing session unpacks the real operating logic of these three types of organizations, and maps out the capability requirements and trade-offs behind different career directions.

Lecture Highlights

The real work of venture capital, big-tech startup teams, and accelerators;
The capabilities and trade-offs behind different career choices.

About the Speaker

Chris Li (李大千) — Director of Startup Ecosystem & Accelerator Business at ByteDance’s Volcano Engine, with long-term engagement in the tech startup ecosystem. He has previously served at Oliver Wyman, an early-stage venture capital firm, and the AWS Startups team — participating in and serving tech startups from the perspectives of investment institutions, international cloud vendors, and domestic AI platforms. B.A. from New York University; MBA from the University of Oxford.