Catharine Dockery started Vice Ventures after facing repeated vice clause rejections while helping raise money for Bev, and she got the fund off the ground by selling her New York apartment and sending over 500 cold emails, including one to Marc Andreessen that led her to fly to San Francisco and win him as an investor. Her path to venture capital ran through managing Bonobos founder Andy Dunn's personal investments and later working on brand acquisitions at Walmart, and she brings a self-designed background in neuroscience and finance from NYU to how she thinks about regulated products, favoring a harm reduction and informed consumption approach over treating them as simply taboo.