Eric Hippeau — Managing Partner, Lerer Hippeau · former CEO of The Huffington Post · former CEO of Ziff Davis · former Yahoo board member ____ In this episode, we're inside the New York offices of Lerer Hippeau, one of Silicon Alley's original venture firms, for an exceptional conversation with Eric Hippeau. Born just outside Paris, raised between Switzerland and the Lycée Français in London, he became a journalist in Brazil where he launched the country's first computer magazine. He then ran Ziff Davis (PC Magazine) through the 1990s before selling the company to SoftBank. He's the one who introduced Masayoshi Son to Yahoo's founders — weeks later, SoftBank invested $100M for roughly a third of the company. Next stop: The Huffington Post as CEO, sold to AOL for $360M. Today, he leads Lerer Hippeau as a seed-first investor: 9 funds, including the latest at $200M, plus 4 growth funds. In this episode: 🔹 His full journey: from Garches to New York, by way of Rio and Silicon Valley 🔹 Selling Ziff Davis to SoftBank and the landmark Yahoo investment 🔹 Why Lerer Hippeau doesn't invest in Europe (yet) 🔹 Seed first: why "investing the money is really the beginning of a journey" 🔹 LPs, fundraising and track record in the US 🔹 The market after the 2022 correction: liquidity, IPOs, M&A 🔹 Today's biggest opportunities: AI applications, decentralized energy, nuclear power (and France's edge), healthcare 🔹 His convictions: no social media before 16 for his grandchildren, AI and education… and the missing "kill switch" on AI 🔹 His recommendations for our next episodes: Fred Wilson and Mike Moritz Filmed in New York as part of our tour of the venture ecosystem in France, the US, and around the world. Deep questions, concrete answers, in an ecosystem that can sometimes lack transparency.

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