Kristen Faulkner loves a “last minute attack.”
In 2021, she left her job as an investor at Threshold Ventures to become a professional cyclist. Now she’s a two-time Olympic gold medalist at the just-finished Paris Olympics who sees parallels between her venture career (which also included three years at Bessemer Venture Partners) and how she cycles, especially when it comes to her high-stakes closing move: The “last minute attack.”
