Maria Barrera,
Clayful
Scale the Bright Spots
Startups can address important mental health problems, but maintaining mental health in startup culture is challenging.
At times, admits Cowboy Ventures founder and managing partner Aileen Lee, she thought she might not stay in the venture capital business. As a woman in a male-dominated space, she sometimes imagined herself as a guppy swimming among sharks. But during a Henry Crown Fellows seminar at The Aspen Institute, she came up with a new visualization: She was a dolphin swimming with the sharks, and had every right to be in that ocean.