A Different Take on Venture Capital | Tony Tjan
Channel: MIT Venture Capital & Innovation
Date: 21/06/2017

Entrepreneur, investor, and author Tony Tjian explains his contrarian approach to venture capital. David Lighton of MIT Sloan gives the introduction.

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Tony Tjan is an entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and venture investor. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck and CEO of The Cue Ball Group, a private investment and venture capital firm based in Boston. He is also the Chairman and co-founder of MiniLuxe, a retail services brand focused on transforming the nail care services industry with studio locations in Massachusetts, Texas, and California.  Prior to joining Cue Ball, Tony served as Vice Chairman of The Parthenon Group and as Senior Advisor to the CEO of The Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters), where he worked to transform the publishing company into one of the world’s largest information services corporations.  He began his career at McKinsey & Company, and in 1996 founded the Internet services firm ZEFER, a pioneering early commercial web initiative that eventually grew to more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Tony holds degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Business School, and has also served as a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School.  He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and a member of the Advisory Council for the MIT Media Lab.