Michael Dolbec | Venture Capital Podcast | Momenta

Michael Dolbec - Walking the Talk in Silicon Valley 

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Michael Dolbec, Managing Partner at Momenta Ventures, our newest member of the Momenta team. For more than 30 years, Michael has been an executive in institutional and corporate venture capital in Silicon Valley, most recently serving as executive managing director for GE Ventures. Mr. Dolbec began his investment career with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and continued with Greylock. He went on to Venture Capital leadership roles at IBM, 3Com, Orange, and LG Electronics.

Some of the discussion points during this interview:

• What would you consider to be your digital thread?
• Based on your rich experience in venture investing across institutional investors - what are three lessons you have learned?
• What were the key drivers of corporate venture capital twenty years ago and how have these models morphed over time?
• What attracted you to joining GE Digital in 2012 where you drove Digital Strategy, Venture Investments, and M&A in the then-nascent industrial internet of things?
• What do you look for in a high-potential startup?
• Why Momenta?
• Where do you find your inspiration?

• "How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People"
• "The Knowledge Machine - How Irrationality Created Modern Science"
• "Leading at a Distance - Practical Lessons for Virtual Success"
• "Delta-V"
• "Project Hail Mary"
• "Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Legal Personality"
• "Transportation Transformation - How Autonomous Mobility Will Fuel New Value Chains"
• "The Grid - Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future"
• "The Pentagon's Brain - An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency"
• "Machine Learning is the High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt"

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