From intern to partner at Icehouse Ventures

Fri, 18 Dec 2020

Icehouse Ventures, the investment group spun out of The Icehouse in April 2019, has a policy of hiring people young and training them up.The policy seems to be working.Jack McQuire is a 25-year-old partner at the firm and has worked there since he joined as an intern at 18. Since then he has started a fund for young founders, is partner to another fund, and sits on the boards of three companies.“We do a lot of stuff across The Icehouse from courses to establish businesses, to investing in early-stage ventures. It was a little bit confusin...

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