It's not about women or potential women need to take a page from then and own their own success. Mr. Enabled the others. Hello, you're listening to the first podcast to go for women and take in all those who want to be able to Smart gender equity for take 10 minutes really actionable advice at 50 in Tech. We give you the keys to unlock the tech industry and move it. For real. Today. We're hosting Emanuel flower 4head of communication of Iris capital and author of into the French Tech. My name is Emmanuel flow of honk. I am director of For Irish Capital European VC co-author of the book into the French Tech and I have been working in tech for over 12 years now so I know a bit about the tech environment. So today I would like to talk with you about the lack of female VC and the fact that many women need to actually consider that job as probably a second time career job, or maybe a new job for the younger generation. And so what's a VC on investor a VC is an acronym for venture capitalist is an investor somebody who will invest money in your company in your startup and who will follow you across your path. So this is very different from a banker. We are not learning your money investors decide to come with you on the project. They invest money. They invest time they invest energy with you and being a VC has to say Is that the job one you're ready to invest everything you've got and be you are actually hate to take risks because entrepreneurs take risk. So being a VC is making sure you can bet on people you can bet on projects and not just decide who will get you all the money back. But also making sure you are ready to make big decisions try and test if it does work, it's magic if it doesn't work. It's not big drummer. Why you should be a VC, especially if your woman because it's not a job about money. It's not a job about Figures. It's not about calculating all the time. How much money you're going to make this is not being a Trader these job being a VC is about being passionate of an about and trouble nurse wanting to work with them wanting the best for them wanting. To make sure that they ask for the right money and you provide the right money and then helping them are making sure the project is shaped the right way. Technically it had what they look like. It's very simple the first thing you do as a VC is meeting and chasing there's a lot of hunting for the best companies the best entrepreneurs every VC will tell you that they invest in people more than Intex. It's true. Nonetheless if your company Rubbish, we will not invest with you to be fairly honest, even if you have the best person in the earth, but we search for the best people and who's the best person to encourage more diversity more mixer T. It's a woman because we care about lots of different people. We live in a world that has been populated by 50% of us and fifty percent of male. So if you get into a field where there's only Mill you might feel a bit I am insecure but it's not something that will always be there. Let me share you with you my personal experience. I have been working in what the cliche and some media would call Mel oriented jobs. I started my career in event management working in agencies with big tough guys who would be the tech people and make sure that the best and biggest thing would be on stage. Then I work for big tech companies. In the tech companies were there's over 50 percent engineers and to be fairly honest among this Engineers. There's a fight a wide majority of men. Then I have worked for the gaming industry gaming is even worst gaming it's all about being passionate and night is coming more and more but it's mostly populated with man. Then I work for the media for meat for me the group where most of the management were led by men and now I'm working for a VC. I'm always working in environments that where there's lots of men, but I haven't chosen this environment for this. I haven't chosen these environments despite of this. I've chosen this environments because I trusted the people I was working with and I trusted their my the father died on the company would make a difference when I done Ares Capital. They were very little woman currently working in the fount and I expressed my duct I expressed the fact that you know, I wanted to work in environment and in a company where more women were there and they had to tell me that we used to be the only found in Paris few years ago where we had two female investors. Unfortunately for us they left and had an amazing career now. Can you really force them to stay with? You know, you can't so I decide to join the found to make sure that my voice I the person my voice as a woman. My voice as a feminist Was Heard within Iris capital and I've been really delighted to see that being feminist is not a woman topic. It's in everyone topic. So if you ever encounter or go to pitch to a VC, there were there's mostly men and Founders and mostly men investors as a female entrepreneur do not fear to say that you would like to see more female you would like to see more diversity because there's always women Everywhere and they will encourage them to hire more women to hire more Juniors or even seniors or even advisors who look more like you if you think that being an investor being a VC is only for people who love Finance who loves spreadsheet that has figures then you might be wrong. Of course. It's part of the job. Of course, you have to be able to read write correct a budget correcta p&l with an entrepreneur. But most of your job is understanding their field understanding what they do so you can be a VC coming from Finance obviously, but also coming from marketing having been an entrepreneur previously having been a manager in a company. If you are passionate with projects and making sure you can be the best support to an entrepreneur. It's not only about being kind to him or her it's also making sure you can You can support them in Every curse of their Journey. So if they are in trouble if they cannot read a culprit if they feel insecure, but also if they need a boost on how to make the bigger cells you don't have to come from Finance to do that. You have to make sure you know exactly what they do. You are passionate as much as they are and you are able to go with them across the journey and that's not a finance job. That's a human being job. I've decided to talk to you about this topic today because I have the chance to work with investors and VC who do not come from the VC world who not come from the investors World some have been in trouble nurse some have been employees and managers within big group within small group in smbs enjoin corporates and to be fairly honest. They are the investor than most of the entrepreneurs prefer. Because they know exactly where they come from they know exactly how to negotiate with a corporate because they come from there and they also know how to be passionate and wake up every morning with the same Obsession how to create value and that's something I think most of the women share. I've decided with Irish Capital to join the 15 Tech platform and project because I think lots of things are badly perceived and barely understood and I would like to be one of the person trying to help you navigate. There and that's one of the reason why you can find me on the platform and I'll be more than happy to help you at the female entrepreneur at the female Tech leader. If you like this podcast subscribe, comment and share and give us a five stars note on your preferred platform should be iTunes Google or some cloud and if you want to empower women at scale Sharon advice on 15 techyv.com
My name is Emmanuelle Flahault-Franc, I amDirector of communications for Iris Capital, a European VC,  co-author of the book “Into the French Tech” and have been working in tech for over 12 years now. I would like to talk with you about the lack of female VC and the fact that many women need to actually consider that job as probably a second-time career job or maybe a new job for the younger generation. What’s a VC or an investor? VC is an acronym for venture capitalist, somebody who will invest money in your company and your startup and who will follow you across your path. This is very different from a banker. We are not loaning you money, investors decide to come with you on the project, they invest money, they invest time, they invest energy with you. And being a VC has two sides of the job,  1: You are ready to invest everything you've got and 2 : you actually hate to take risks because entrepreneurs take risks. Being a VC is making sure you can bet on people and you can bet on projects and not just decide who will get you all the money back but also making sure you are ready to make big decisions. Try and test, if it does work its magic if it does not work it's not a big drama. Why you should be a VC especially if you’re a woman? Because it's not a job about money, or figures, it's not about calculating all the time how much money you're going to make.This is not being a trader. Being a VC, is about being passionate of and about entrepreneurs, wanting to work with them, and the best for them, wanting to make sure that they ask for the right money, and you provide the right money, and helping them on making sure the project is shaped the right way. (...)The first thing you do as a VC is meeting and chasing, so there is a lot of hunting, for the best companies, the best entrepreneurs. Every VC will tell you that they invest in people more than in techs. And who's the best person to encourage more diversity? A woman, because we care about lots of different people. (...) When I joined Iris Capital there were very little women and I expressed my doubts. They told me : ”We used to be the only fund in Paris, with two female investors. Unfortunately they left and have amazing careers now. Can you really force them to stay with you? No you can't.”  I decided to join the fund to make sure that my voice as a woman and as a feminist was heard. Being a feminist is not a woman topic it’s an everyone topic. If you go to pitch to a VC, do not fear to say that you would like to see more females, more diversity. It will encourage them to hire more women,  juniors, seniors. If you think that being a VC is only for people who love finance, who love spreadsheets, data, then you might be wrong. Of course it's part of the job, of course you have to be able to read, write, correct a budget,  a P&L with an entrepreneur but most of your job is understanding their field and what they do. You can be a VC coming from finance obviously but also from marketing, having been an entrepreneur previously, or a manager. Being a VC is making sure you can support entrepreneurs If they are in trouble, if they cannot reach a corporate, if they feel insecure, if they need a boost on how to make the biggest sales. You have to make sure you are passionate as much as they are and you are able to go with them across the journey. That’s not a finance job, that’s a human being job  I've decided to join  50intech because I think that lots of things are badly perceived and badly understood and i would like to help you navigate that. 