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Anirudh Singh sits down with Meka Asonye, Partner at First Round Capital. In this episode they discuss:\n\n- Meka\u2019s early career, including spending time with the Cleveland Indians\n- Heading Stripe\u2019s Startup/SMB business\n- How Meka became an angel investor and later decided to join First Round Capital\n- Being fluent in Pig Latin\nAnd much more!\n\nMeka Asonye is a Partner at First Round Capital based in San Francisco. Before moving into venture, Meka was an active angel investor backing companies such as Coda, Common Room, Rimeto (acq. by Slack), Snackpass and Stytch.\n\nPreviously, he served as the VP of Sales & Services at Mixpanel, where he ran the more than 100-person global revenue team and owned the customer lifecycle from first website visit to renewal.\n\nBefore Mixpanel, Meka spent four years at Stripe as it scaled from 250 to 2000 people and matured its sales org. When he first joined in 2016, Meka served as one of the payments company\u2019s early account executives, leading their first attempts to go upmarket and land enterprise logos. For the next three years, he headed up Stripe\u2019s Startup/SMB business, which involved launching outbound sales, optimizing self-serve, building a customer success function, opening new offices, and finding creative ways to holistically support startup customers.\n\nPrior to joining Stripe, Meka served as Case Team Leader at Bain in San Francisco, partnering with the C-Suites of Fortune 50 companies across different verticals. Meka started his career working in Player Development & Baseball Operations for the Cleveland Indians, where managed operations of the Minor League system and advised the General Manager on Major League roster and payroll allocation through advanced statistical analysis.\n\nMeka earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in Economics and Finance from Princeton and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He's an instrument rated private pilot and diehard Chicago Bears fan.\n\nFor more FinTech insights, follow us below:\nMedium: medium.com/wharton-fintech\nLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/\nWFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech\nAnirudh's Twitter: twitter.com/avsingh_24