Bing Gordon, Kleiner Perkins, EA | David Helgason, Unity, Foobar | myfirstminute podcast
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As we wrap up 2022, we’ve looked back at firstminute capital’s first podcast “my firstminute” from 2020 and 2021.
My firstminute talked to some of the world’s top investors, founders and thought-leaders about the first minutes of their careers, some of the battles they’ve overcome and their advice on navigating the world today. When discussing ‘the world today’, many guests addressed the effects of Covid-19 as this series was recorded in the height of the pandemic. Each episode concludes with a Q&A with fellow entrepreneurs.
Happy investor, happy life
Many say an investor-founder relationship is like a marriage. That includes David Helgason and Bing Gordon.
In this episode of myfirstminute from May 2020, we covered everything from the earliest days of their careers, as founder and CEO of Unity Technologies for David and Chief Creative Officer at EA for Bing, to how they now enjoy helping and backing founders. David is a founding Partner at Nordics Makers, a group of ten top Nordic angels, and also has his private vehicle, Foobar.vc. As for Bing, he joined Kleiner Perkins in 2008 and serves as Chief Product Officer for the firm. He also leads Kleiner Perkins' sFund, the investment initiative to fund and build applications and services that deliver on the promise of the social web.