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VC in three exited Unicorns. Angel investor. Harvard Business School Lecturer. Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ.

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Alcohol

May 13, 2015May 13, 2015 Jo Tango

I’ve drastically cut my consumption of alcohol. Part of that is that I gave it up again recently during Lent and didn’t really get back into it much thereafter. Part of it is that drinking two glasses of wine makes me very lethargic the next morning during spring pollen season. But, part of it is this:

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Home Remedies

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 Jo Tango

It was a quiet weekend. I’ve been in bed for a few days with a gastrointestinal bacterial infection. I’ve lost 6 lbs and haven’t eaten much.  TMI, I know. I got it by drinking from an old water bottle while fly fishing. Lesson learned. So, I rallied to see my doctor. Her parents are from

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Re-Post: My Mother and Her Shoe Boxes

May 10, 2015May 10, 2015 Jo Tango

This is a re-post of a blog entry I wrote a few years ago. I thought it would be appropriate to re-run it, with today being Mother’s Day. This time, I’m adding a picture of her, my sister, and me. We had just emigrated from Indonesia and arrived in Queens, NY. This is a hard

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A 21″ Brown Trout

May 9, 2015May 9, 2015 Jo Tango

I feel really good about our Thursday meeting with our investors. We heard very positive feedback about the portfolio as well as the transparency that we always try to show. It was a good feeling. I’m so grateful to our investors and to the portfolio company CEOs, who made time to speak. I long ago

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The Power of One Life

May 7, 2015October 30, 2024 Jo Tango

My heart continues to go out to classmate and friend, Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook COO, and her two young children. Her husband, Dave Goldberg, passed away. My friend Jon McNeill recently posted on Facebook a very touching remembrance of Dave. The three of us worked at Bain & Company around the same time. I didn’t know

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Finding Shared Values

May 7, 2015May 7, 2015 Jo Tango

We just finished our Annual Meeting with our investors. That’s when our LPs fly in and get an in-person update on our portfolio and hear from some of our companies. I love our investors. I always feel the same way after our meeting: excited, grateful, and humbled.  One thing I said impromptu when I introduced

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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Tying Small Flies
Fishing Small Flies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Writing My Wrongs
Simple Path
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Dynamic Nymphing: Tactics, Techniques, and Flies from Around the World
The Sun Also Rises
A Moveable Feast
The Great Gatsby
The Little Prince
Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
The Laughing Sutra
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Man's Search for Meaning
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End


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