Scott Lenet helped start the idea of venture capital as a service, first at Touchdown Ventures and now at Cerity Partners Ventures, spending over a decade helping large companies invest in startups while also teaching corporate innovation at UCLA and venture capital at USC. His background is unusually varied, mixing a degree in comparative literature from Princeton, an MBA from Wharton, and hands-on experience founding and selling his own startup, and he writes about venture capital in a way that ranges from serious topics like valuations and governance to lessons drawn from Star Wars.