The queen of tech VCs reveals the two things you need to become a killer negotiator (via CNBCMakeIt)
Eileen Burbidge, founding partner at Passion Capital, shares her career-defining lightbulb moments in CNBC Make It's "My Biggest Lessons."As one of the most prominent venture capitalists on the British tech scene, Eileen Burbidge has had her fair share of high-stakes negotiations.
"Negotiation skills are so important," Burbidge told CNBC Make It. "This doesn't mean that everyone's necessarily going to be negotiating million-dollar deals. There are negotiations that we all have to undertake each and every day." "You have to know when you're willing to walk away and be willing to walk away, because if you're not, you'll have no negotiating power or leverage whatsoever," Burbidge said.
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