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title: 'Jackson Square Ventures Partner Victor Echevarria on Why the Best Founders are Incredibly Humble; why SPACs are Overhyped, and Why the First $100B Healthtech Company is Closer Than You Might Think.'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/jackson-square-ventures-partner-victor-echevarria-on-why-the-best-founders-are-incredibly-humble-why-spacs-are-overhyped-and-why-the-first-100b-healthtech-company-is-closer-than-you-might-think'
show: 'A Healthy Idea'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/a-healthy-idea'
published: '2021-06-24'
audio: 'https://anchor.fm/s/491c3c4/podcast/play/36090664/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2021-5-24%2F37b1add3-edb8-dd40-7b4f-f4c0a98a7753.mp3'
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# Jackson Square Ventures Partner Victor Echevarria on Why the Best Founders are Incredibly Humble; why SPACs are Overhyped, and Why the First $100B Healthtech Company is Closer Than You Might Think.

Today's special guest is Victor Echevarria! Victor is a Partner at Jackson Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses. A founder turned investor, his investments include 1upHealth, WELL Health, …

## Summary

Today's special guest is [Victor Echevarria](https://www.linkedin.com/in/etxeba/)! Victor is a Partner at [Jackson Square Ventures](https://www.jsv.com/), an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses. A founder turned investor, his investments include [1upHealth](https://1up.health/), [WELL Health](https://wellapp.com/), and [Trust & Will](https://trustandwill.com/).

Prior to joining JSV in 2018, Victor founded Remedy Labs, a healthcare fintech company focused on patient and payer billing accuracy. He was also a very early team member at TaskRabbit, where he ran marketing and business development, conceptualizing and launching the company's B2B offering.

Topics we talk about today:

1) How did being an early leader at TaskRabbit change the way you think about operating startups?

2) Victor's insane luck of graduating into two different recessions after finishing undergrad and B-school.

3) Why there's "never a good time" to start a company.

4) What is interoperability and why now might finally be the time to achieve it.

5) Are SPACs worth the hype?

6) How start-up founders can hack hyper-personal growth

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