Profile: Lightspeed China Partners’ James Mi
Rejecting a life-changing job offer from Google and overseeing a failed start-up are two of James Mi’s mistakes. He learned from them and then made a success of Lightspeed China Partners
Lightspeed China Partners generally doesn’t do first closes. The firm moved directly to a final close of USD 920m on its most recent fund – beating a target of USD 750m – in late 2021 after just...
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