Adrianna Samaniego
Venture Investor
Conversations
From her grandparents' ledger to the Series A table
Some people learn venture capital in a boardroom. Adrianna Samaniego started learning it as a kid, at her grandparents' side, watching a small business get built the hard way.
Transcript →In their words
Some people learn venture capital in a boardroom. She learned it at her grandparents' side.C·017
Corridor Context
Adrianna Samaniego learned the fundamentals of building a business at her grandparents' side, long before she sat at the Series A table as an investor.
The arc they moved through
A warm, rapid-fire start. Pride, personality, and the one word in each guest's language that English can't touch.
Where they come from, and how it shaped the way they build, invest, and lead. Terroir over resume.
The real work. The honest business, the hard decisions, the bet they're actually making. Host as peer, not fan.
The jam session. Escalating questions, playful to profound, and one answer the guest can save "pa' la sobremesa."
The same closing question, every guest, forever: who held the door open for you, and whose name goes on the door you're holding open?