Yousuf is a managing Partner at Ridge Ventures. Having held many operational roles in his previous positions, he’s uniquely qualified to not only grow Ridge’s portfolio, but more importantly to support founders through the vantage point of deep start-up experience.

Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first ever CIO of Automation Anywhere, the CIO and Vice President of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys, and Hult International Business School. He continues to host monthly CIO events amongst his peers which have become known as group therapy dinners where problems solving and design partnership lead conversations.  Yousuf currently serves as a board director for Polly, the leading survey solution in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Topics covered in this episode: 

- Role of CIOs in startups

- How to scale startups to enterprise-readiness

- Post-Covid Trends in venture funding 

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