Venture Capital: Dan Ciporin ’86 and Michelle Kwon ’20

Dan Ciporin ’86 is general partner at Canaan Partners, an
early-stage venture capital firm. He is interviewed by Michelle
Kwon ’20, a second-year MBA student at Yale School of Management.
Show Notes.


Dan Ciporin ’86 is a general partner at
Canaan, an early-stage venture capital firm. He partners with
startups to deliver innovation particularly in the areas of
financial technology, e-commerce, and marketplaces. Dan joined
Canaan after serving as Chairman and CEO of Shopping.com, where
he took the company public after leading it from zero to over
$100 million in revenue in five years and then sold it to Ebay.
Prior to that he was Senior VP of MasterCard International
running their global debit program. Dan earned an A.B. from
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs and an M.B.A. from Yale School of
Management in 1986.


Michelle Kwon '20 is a second-year student in
Yale SOM's full-time MBA program. Before enrolling at Yale SOM,
she worked as a Business Affairs Project Manager supporting the
launch of Airbnb Experiences in San Francisco. Before Airbnb, she
worked at Soros Fund Management in New York City supporting
equity capital markets, securitized products, and growth equity
investments. Michelle graduated from Georgetown University with a
B.A. in Government and conducted research in South Korea as a
Fulbright Scholar. She is from Orange County, CA by way of
Cincinnati, OH.