Meet the Gen Z investor who is making the VC world take young people seriously

Meagan Loyst has always been career oriented. In high school, she was a self-described “mega-mega-overachiever.” She volunteered at a hospital. She worked at a law firm, did a stint at Citibank, and decided that she enjoyed business strategy. As a student majoring in finance and information systems at Boston College, she fell into the investing world. (She has a picture of herself meeting Warren Buffett.) After college, she worked for the growth equity firm General Atlantic, and then moved to Lerer Hippeau, an early-stage venture capital company. READ MORE