Ellen Chisa
Boldstart Ventures, Partner
Career Highlights
Program Manager for the Office Hub on Windows Phone 8
Product Manager at Kickstarter
Starting a programming language company (Dark - darklang.com)
failuresMoments of working on canceled/directionless products
Always hard to no longer be working directly on a company you founded
Current FocusDay one investing for developer tooling, infra, enterprise, and SaaS companies
Hobbies
Triathlons (swimming, indoor and outdoor cycling, running), Reading, Crossword puzzles
Talk to me about
I've been told my "superpower" is synthesizing large sets of information to say what the key points are and/or what to do
My husband and I have a "template" for a quarterly reflection on our marriage/home life. People say it is too much like OKRs at home, but we're happy with it. I'd also say we have a 50-50 split of domestic labor/parenting which I am very proud of
I want to talk to you about
For other VCs: Best incremental metrics to track as a VC when "real" results are 10 years in the making
For founders: What you have appreciated most about investors
For anyone:
What's something you believe is going to change dramatically in our lifetime?
What's something you believe we'll look back on and be astounded we did (something like how we now see not wearing a seatbelt/smoking cigarettes)?
