Quitting the American Dream with ...
Quitting the American Dream with Henri Deshays

Beyond Borders por Sacha Ledan and Solenn Thircuir

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He got the Stanford MBA, built a startup, helped launch one of Silicon Valley's top accelerators, and became a venture capitalist investing in founders on both sides of the Atlantic. By every measure, Henri Deshays lived the American Dream. So why is he packing up after 17 years and moving back to France? In this episode of Beyond Borders: American Dreams, Real Stories, French entrepreneur and venture capitalist Henri Deshays opens up about his journey from Paris Dauphine and Sciences Po to Stanford Graduate School of Business, co-founding the fashion startup Modewalk, helping build StartX (Stanford's startup accelerator), and spending nearly a decade as a partner at Newfund, a Franco-American VC fund. We dig into the cultural gap between French and American attitudes toward risk and failure, what it's really like to raise a bicultural family in ... 

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