Hi, everyone. It's Rebecca. You're listening to Superwomen. Today's guest is Kat Lee, currently a partner at Maveron. Maveron is a very, very, very, very large venture capital fund. And why I thought it was interesting to talk to Kat as she has a fascinating story of how she went from working in tech to then switching lanes

and working in finance. So I hope you enjoy this episode. I'm here with a partner at Maveron, Kat Lee,

and I'm excited because she has a really interesting career path starting at companies like Facebook,

head of culture at Pinterest, and now a partner at a VC firm.

And we're going to get into some of the terms that I know are thrown around.

So welcome.

Thanks for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

So I would love to talk first about, share a little bit about you, your background, what got you into the tech space.

I started in Silicon Valley. I was born and raised in Santa Clara. So I kind of grew up with startups kind of happening all around me throughout high

school and college. So it's just normal, just every day. Somewhat. Yeah. And my dad, I sort of kind of lucked

into. My dad was a physicist turned engineer, and I followed in his footsteps. So I majored in computer science at Stanford. And I literally went into the company that he had worked at for 40 years, which was Lockheed Martin. I was on this rotation program. and I quickly realized that I was not personally passionate

about the defense industry. So I think I spent my entire living up until that moment sort of doing

what my parents wanted me to do, and I think that a lot of that is cultural. And then having this

moment that that didn't lead to my own happiness. So I did what most

people do, applied for grad school to try to transition in my career. And I went to grad school

at Michigan to get my MBA. I knew that I wanted to work on products that I used every day.

That was just something that was really important to me. And so I ended up interning at Google. And luckily, I also got exposed to part

of my internship was in India. And so that sort of opened my eyes to sort of this global environment

and even having the opportunity of living outside of California.

Because up until that point, I was pretty much in California most of my life saw at Google that there was just an incredible culture, incredibly talented people.

But at the same time, the company felt really big.

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