#123: Launching the world's first Windows smartphone on 02, starting the world's first C-suite angel syndicate and important investing lessons with Christina Teo

Christina Teo is the chief builder of SHE1K, which is the world's first C-suite executive angel syndicate. She has built a community of 170 C-suite and senior executives who have invested $6m+ in 30 startups. Christina has built her career mostly outside of Singapore. She started in market research, she then took on regional sales, marketing, product and P&L roles in technology and in companies such as Acer, IBM, and 3Com. During the dot com boom, she became the first country manager at Yahoo! Singapore, followed by launching the world's first Windows smartphone at O2, where she single-handedly spearheaded the business from scratch to $300m in revenue. Christina retired for the first time at the age of 41. She went on to New York to pursue her personal destiny but returned as CMO of Hong Kong's CSL, carrying half of the company's P&L with a 90 person team. Christina has lived in Hong Kong, in Taiwan, France, Italy, and New York, and pursued a master's in psychology at NYU, with a bachelor's at National University of Singapore. We cover the following in our conversation: Chris's successful corporate career How Chris immersed herself in the startup community Launching an angel syndicate The investment thesis Engaging female angel investors How to invest Important investment lessons And how do we encourage more women to engage with their money? ***