This week's guest is Leo Polovets. Leo is a  co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on enterprise software; developer tools and technical products; and logistics and supply chain.

Leo led Susa's investments in Outlier, Pex, Scalyr, and Stedi. Having been a software engineer for 10+ years, Leo approaches challenges with an engineering mindset and supports portfolio companies in vetting and hiring technical talent.

Prior to Susa, Leo was the second engineering hire at Linkedin where he worked on the first versions of products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. Leo then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google and was also an early engineer at Factual, where he built data processing software.

Leo and Susa are known for investing in industries that traditionally lag behind when it comes to software adoption, so we asked him what lessons founders could apply across industries and what the new wave of interest in cleantech from venture capital means for the industry.

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