Building 500 Global and Parenting in Tech | Christine Tsai | Ep.213 Building 500 Global and Parenting in Tech | Christine Tsai | Ep.213

About this episode

Christine Tsai discusses her journey in venture capital and balancing parenting with leadership.

In this episode of The Girl Dad Show, Young Han talks with Christine Tsai, CEO and founding partner of 500 Global, about her journey from early product work at Google to scaling one of the world’s most active venture firms. Christine shares how she helped grow 500 Global to over $2B in AUM with investments in more than 3,000 companies across 80 plus countries, and what it takes to build and manage a global portfolio. Christine traces the influence of her immigrant family and an early love of technology, including how her mother’s engineering career shaped her perspective. We discuss her product marketing work at Google, the evolution of 500 Global, and the firm’s role in backing founders around the world. We also dig into parenting and leadership, exploring how she balances family with running a fast changing firm, what success looks like as a parent, and how a growth mindset applies to both raising kids and building companies. Christine offers thoughts on how AI and technology are reshaping opportunity and risk, and lessons drawn from her immigrant story and early tech exposure. 🔗 CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE TSAI 👥 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinetsai 📸 Instagram…

People in this episode

Host: Young Han

Guest: Christine Tsai

Topics covered

• venture capital
• parenting
• technology
• leadership
• growth mindset
• immigrant experience

Keywords

• venture capital
• parenting
• technology
• 500 Global
• Google
• leadership
• growth mindset

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 500 Global, Google

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