“We got some early stock in Yahoo and that’s probably the first one that I can pin… one of our partners was teaching a class on entrepreneurship at Stanford and got approached by the two founders after class if he could help. We took some stock in Yahoo and that check showed up in the mid 90’s as not just as a 5x or 10x, but as a 1000x. That was the moment it became clear to me this was an extraordinary opportunity to put money into young startups .”

 

In this episode of The Idealists. (formerly Grit & Grace), host and entrepreneur Melissa Kiguwa interviews Sonya Erickson who is a lawyer, partner, and member of the board of directors at Cooley Law Firm. The recognition for Sonya’s work is vast. She has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America Venture Capital Law category since 2004 and is listed as a leading attorney in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2013. In this episode Sonya shares why she believes more women at the table means better resources for women as a whole.

 about the episode.

  • Sonya begins the episode by describing how her Midwestern values informed a fear of talking about money.

  • She then describes how she began investing (including in Yahoo) and mapping her own financial destiny outside of her cultural values.

  • Sonya shares where she sees women dropping out of their careers before reaping financial upsides and how she is trying to mitigate this.

  • At the end of the episode, Sonya shares her audacious vision for the world.

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