#80 Charlie Songhurst

Charlie Songhurst #80 Founding partner, Katana Capital In 2013, after eight years as an executive at Microsoft, Charlie Songhurst became a full-time investor — and a prolific one at that. He’s backed about 500 companies. He has plenty of opinions about what makes startups successful, as he discussed in an episode of the “Invest Like the Best” podcast in 2020. For instance, he said big opportunities often came from less glamorous lines of business, where “no one wants to boast they do it at a dinner party.” Among his myriad investments are Rigetti Computing, which went public in March, and Tractable, which became a unicorn last year. Source: businessInsider