Best Manager Ever: Helen Min - Scaling Impact Through Effective Management

Helen Min is a venture partner at True Ventures, and an investor and advisor to over 50 early-stage enterprise software and fintech companies. Helen has a notable background leading global marketing and communications at companies like AngelList, Plaid, and Quora and was an early marketing leader at Dropbox and Facebook. 

Helen’s direct reports highlight her genuine care for the team, her support for their growth and development, her polished approach to communication, and her ability to involve the team early in strategy and planning. 

In this episode, show creator and Fort Light founder Annie Riley sits down with Helen,

and they cover:

• Helen’s background, from joining the early marketing team at Facebook to leading global marketing and comms teams, and now ultimately investing and advising
• Good vs. bad reasons to want to be a manager 
• The most rewarding and hardest parts of being a manager 
• Long-term benefits of authentic relationship-building 
• When and how to bring the team into project planning 
• Making the most of 1:1s 
• Inquiry as an under-utilized manager superpower 
• Helen’s transition into VC, and how she leverages operating experience as an investor 

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