She began on the consumer side at early-stage companies including Lot18 and pioneered the early push of CPG e-commerce at Amazon long before the Whole Foods acquisition. After a pivot into tech M&A at Morgan Stanley and a partnership at GGV Capital (now Notable), she joined NEA roughly three years ago. Luck: I see incredible parallels. At Amazon, I spent my days convincing CPG manufacturers that e-commerce was the inevitable future. Back then, there was immense friction ' technological, logistical and mental. Today, Fortune 500 companies are in a similar spot with AI. While the potential is obvious, most organizations are still struggling to integrate it into their daily workflows. We are moving from a world where AI is a 'shiny object' to one where it must solve a mechanical problem, but getting there requires overcoming that initial resistance. It's the primary concern for founders right now. Most horizontal tools, like Claude, currently act as research co-pilots. They are...
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