What’s In A Name With IDEA Fund’s Zakiya Alta Lee-Hill

12/04/2024 42 min Episodio 105

Listen "What’s In A Name With IDEA Fund’s Zakiya Alta Lee-Hill"

Episode Synopsis


It’s been a long and busy week in the Triangle tech startup ecosystem that we capped—as usual—with an episode of The Friday Nooner sponsored by Whitley Recruiting.

This week’s guest was Zakiya Alta Lee-Hill, a Senior Associate at Chapel Hill-based IDEA Fund Partners. We talked about how her varied background—everything from dancing for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks to running a business to train aspiring dancers for pro teams—affects the way she evaluates founders and their businesses.

We also talked about her (multiple) names and the names of Joe’s kids, her daughter and her soon-to-be-son scheduled for a June arrival.

More episodes of the podcast The Friday Nooner