Eleven years ago, Shakir never imagined she’d be talking about venture capital at career day.
” at her Harvard graduation, started grad school at Georgetown, and was working a number of side hustles to fully fund her degree. Over the next decade, she held several different types of roles.She was a reporter for BBC and an Aga Khan Fellow at The Aspen Institute. She led public-private partnerships for USAID and was a Presidential Management Fellow in Secretary Clinton’s office at the State Department.
and has since made another investment. She can confidently say there’s nothing else she’d rather be doing then venture investing. And she truly believes her nontraditional career path, specifically spending so much time as an operator building partnerships across sectors, is an important asset to the founders and CEOs she invests in.
Below, Shakir explains how being an operator and connector across industries for over 10 years offers tailwinds for her current role. Plus, the top three skills she believes founders should look for when evaluating a VC.Shakir’s operating experience sparked her passion in the product world. At Google, she developed partnerships for early-stage products in a range of industries—healthcare, retail, hardware, AI, and a whole lot more.
This partnership experience also provided her with a wide and deep network. It was her job to figure out who the best-in-class players were in each space, to engage them on behalf of Google, and to get their help launching the product. Today, these are the very same contacts she mobilizes for deal flow, diligence, potential executive hires, go-to-market, and more.
Being an operator for over a decade offered her experience building, negotiating, and closing deals across sectors, an incredibly valuable skill set for a VC.While Shakir believes that there are a wide array of skills and qualities that can make you effective as an investor, there are three phenotypes that stick out to her that founders should seek when choosing a VC to partner with: the networker, the closer, and the coach. Here’s why.
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