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Fortune
Allie Garfinkle

Explaining venture capital to kids with Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir

(Credit: Deena Shakir)

One of my favorite questions to ask VCs and founders is: "What do your kids think you actually do for a living?"

Usually, I work my way up to that. But talking to Lux Capital general partner Deena Shakir, I asked her almost immediately because it was (for the first time) undeniably relevant: Shakir’s children's book about startups, Leena Mo, CEO, was just published by Simon & Schuster. 

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