Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

On this episode, we're joined by Marr Hershenson, founding managing partner at PairVC.

Before she moved into venture investing,

Marr earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University and leveraged that technical

background to launch three startups in the mobile e-commerce, enterprise software, and semiconductor

industries. Here's Mar.

It's really, I've been a listener of ETL for many years,

so it's actually great to be here today.

The last time I was here was actually five years ago.

I came to listen to my longtime mentor, Catherine Gold.

She actually helped us bring pair up.

And she was one of the first female venture capitalists in the Valley.

But not only that, she was actually one of the best venture capitalists in the Valley.

And sadly, she passed away nine months after her ETL seminar.

So today I thought I would take just a couple of seconds to remember her and actually encourage all of you to listen to her presentation.

I think it's all worth it.

I am going to start the talk by giving a little Twitter-style bio,

and then I will get to double-tap on what I do today, and

finally I'll get to the meat of the talk. So this is my bio, Twitter-style. I was born in

Barcelona, Spain, and I spent my childhood on my teenage years there. I actually spent my sophomore year in high school in Kansas City, Missouri.

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