When venture capitalist Jeremy Liew and his wife were dating, they talked about how one day they would take a year to travel the world. “That’s how we’d know we’d made it,” Liew says.
He went on to become a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and during his first 16 years at the firm, Liew told colleagues he planned to take a sabbatical. His successes included a seed investment in Snap Inc. But when the parent of messaging app Snapchat went public in 2017 at a valuation of $24 billion—a sign, one might think, that he had “made it”—Liew continued to work at the same intensity.
