Ted Schlein | Ballistic Ventures, Kleiner Perkins - On generational firm building, 40 years in cyber, and why you have to earn the right

Meet Ted Schlein, executive chairman and general partner of Ballistic Ventures, and general partner at Kleiner Perkins since 1996.Ted has been in the cybersecurity industry really since it began, helping build one of the first major companies in the sector, Symantec. He then joined Kleiner Perkins, where he has been involved for over three decades, during which he founded another cybersecurity darling, Fortify Software. And if that wasn't enough, he recently founded another venture firm, Ballistic Ventures. Very few people have had the staying power and success of Ted, and in this episode we dig into a bit of everything spanning his generational run - which is still going on today. We close by learning a bit about the stories that shape him and the best advice he picked up along the way.