Start Up to HF?

Have you seen this happen before? Let's say people going from a Series A company to a well known HF? Or a large company like Uber doing strategy/ corp dev into a HF?

Obviously nothing is impossible, but what would you do to transition to a HF if you took this route? And would tech oriented HFs be your best bet? Getting looked at by traditional 2+2 recruiters seems tough, so how would you go about it? Anything would be helpful, thanks!

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