Deborah Quazzo built her investing career by identifying human capital as an under-served part of the growth economy more than 25 years ago while at Merrill Lynch, long before edtech became a mainstream VC category. She co-founded and scaled the ASU+GSV Summit from around 350 people in conference rooms at ASU to a global 7,000-person leadership gathering, deliberately bringing together edtech founders, educators, workforce executives, philanthropists, and policymakers to create deals and collaborations rather than just writing checks. Deborah Quazzo built her investing career by identifying human capital as an under-served part of the growth economy more than 25 years ago while at Merrill Lynch, long before edtech became a mainstream VC category. She co-founded and scaled the ASU+GSV Summit from around 350 people in conference rooms at ASU to a global 7,000-person leadership gathering, deliberately bringing together edtech founders, educators, workforce executives, philanthropists, and policymakers to create deals and collaborations rather than just writing checks.