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Succeeding as CEO & the Intersection of Immigration+Entrepreneurship w/ Mar Hershenson of Pear VC
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This week, I'm sitting down with Mar Hershenson, one of the Founding Managing partners at Pear Ventures, a VC firm that supports new entrepreneurs with fresh ideas and funding. After studying electrical engineering at Stanford, Mar co-founded three tech and hardware startups, eventually transitioning to the funding side of VC to found Pear with other immigrants. In this episode we talk about how Dropbox CEO, the interconnection of immigration and entrepreneurship, and scaling a startup the right pace. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/venture-vignettes/support
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This week, I'm sitting down with Mar Hershenson, one of the Founding Managing partners at Pear Ventures, a VC firm that supports new entrepreneurs with fresh ideas and funding. After studying electrical engineering at Stanford, Mar co-founded three tech and hardware startups, eventually transitioning to the funding side of VC to found Pear with other immigrants. In this episode we talk about how Dropbox CEO, the interconnection of immigration and entrepreneurship, and scaling a startup the right pace. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/venture-vignettes/support
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