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Not all founders are tech founders – meet Jade Leong, CEO and Founder of Voyagers Table!

Jeff Croft, CRO of Kurvv.ai shares his decision making process for leaving a great job at Microsoft to join Kurvv as their Chief Revenue Officer.

Kwame Boler is the CEO and Co-founder of Neu, as well as an alum of Techstars Seattle. He shares his story about the day he decided to leave Boeing, to go full time on his startup.

You’re a PM at Microsoft and your friend calls you with a business idea. Soon you realize you have to make a choice between your startup and your steady job. You are not alone. Diego Oppenheimer, founder and CEO of Algorithmia shares why the opportunity costs of leaving a secure job in tech are low and what helped him along his journey to launch his enterprise.

Brennan Keough worked at Boeing for 2 years when he realized it was time to venture out. Get the inside scoop on how Keough overcame his reservations about launching a startup and the advice he has to share for anyone else contemplating a similar path.

Every year 2 million people apply to work at Google. For Trista Taylor, now Founder and CEO at Regroup, working at Google was her dream job. Then, one day she left. Read the sound advice Taylor has to offer to other founders looking to make the leap into the startup arena and how connecting with other founders helped her dare to jump.

Black Lives Matter. At Venture Out, we are dedicated to creating a more just world. We stand with you, founders, mentors, sponsors, partners, the Venture Out community. We invite you to read our calls to action and how we can continue to advocate for and support each other.

Venture Out raises $500k from M12, Microsoft’s VC arm, and other VC firms like Founders’ Co-op, Flying Fish, and Liquid 2 Ventures. Read on to learn more about VO, a Seattle-based startup that offers a 12-week program for employees working in Big Tech who have a startup idea.

Telling your startup story is rarely easy. Sharing these experiences can be uncomfortable and vulnerable. Robin Eastman, opens up on the lessons she learned from leaving her HR job at Amazon to launch her startup, Versatackle, and the honest conversations she had along the way.

Venture Out started as 20 builders and technologists and has grown into more than 200 founders building some of the world’s next big tech companies. We are excited to announce we have gained the support from M12 and a group of 30+ early stage investors who help make moonlighting possible.