#174 James Cameron: Becoming VC investor at Accel + Airtree, Embracing Career Uncertainty, Why diversity matters (in his first public interview since 2018)

The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

James is a General Partner at Airtree Ventures and this is a very rare public interview with him, we understand his first since 2018.

James has a particular interest in software, infrastructure and fintech and led Airtree's investments in A Cloud Guru, Constantinople, DroneDeploy, Zepto, Buildkite and Secure Code Warrior.

Prior to joining Airtree, James spent 15 years working in the US, UK and Asia. He was Vice President at Accel Partners, the VC fund behind Slack, Dropbox, Facebook and Spotify.

James was born in Canberra and now lives in Sydney, Australia.

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