Claire Smilow helped BoxGroup make a roughly $1 billion return on Cursor. Now she’s scouting college campuses for the next generation of founders

Claire Smilow has spent years scouting talented people before they become the next big thing in tech. That instinct paid off in 2019, when she was blown away by a sophomore at MIT who already had a strategic and commercial vision. Smilow played the long game in seeing his talents through—and it led to a billion-dollar payoff. The investor first met Michael Truell while conducting case study interviews for her student VC firm, Dorm Room Fund.

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