020: Sheldon Lewis (Co-Founder @ Blueprint Equity): Raising a $70M Fund from Scratch019: Sheldon Lewis

Sheldon Lewis is co-founder and Managing Director of Blueprint. Prior to co-founding Blueprint, Lewis was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Business Development at PayLease where he identified and executed strategic initiatives to accelerate the Company’s growth trajectory. Prior to PayLease, Lewis was a

Senior Associate with Mainsail Partners, a San Francisco-based growth equity firm, where he was responsible for sourcing and executing new investments, as well as working with portfolio companies. Early in his career, Lewis was an Analyst with Piper Jaffray’s Technology Investment Banking group where he executed mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions in alternative energy, Internet, software, and semiconductor sectors. Prior to Piper Jaffray, Lewis held positions at Deloitte, Transition Partners Limited, and Sargent Bickham Lagudis. Lewis is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Tips from Sheldon's Playbook:

1. Put in the reps.
2. Don’t be ashamed of rejection.
3. Find a good partner who you can be Yin and Yang with.

Tweetable Quotes:

The leader is always the bottleneck. – Chris Vasquez