Our guest in this episode is Melanie Strong. Mel is a Managing Partner at Next Ventures, working alongside Julian Eison and Lance Armstrong. Next Ventures is a health and fitness focused venture capital fund. Prior to joining Next, Mel spent the majority of her career so far in Sports Marketing, included 17 accomplished years at Nike.
In this episode, Matt and Mel discussed things like her decision to move on from Nike, how she goes about setting expectations for herself, and building relationships with people in the venture space. The two also talked about things like the possible lasting changes of 2020 and the connection between mental health and spending time outdoors.
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