Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mar Hershenson is a Founding Managing Partner at Pear VC. She holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and previously co-founded three technology startups.

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3 supported 3 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mar argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Hershenson: Pear VC portfolio companies are worth over $100 billion combined

“I've worked for the last decade with hundred plus startups. They're worth over a hundred billion dollars”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 0:39 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

How they sound: speaking style how? →

243 words/min while actually speaking · 13.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Mar Hershenson: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,820 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said11 Episodes1

Everything Mar Hershenson said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Hershenson: Assertive women in boardrooms are labeled 'bitches' rather than 'assholes'

“I'm board meetings. I look, you know, I'm not an asshole. I'm a bitch, right? That's the summary of the situation.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 21:29 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Hershenson: Repeat founders account for 59% of top unicorn startups

“And while there are 37% of founders, the repeat founders in companies today, 59% repeat founders are in the top unicorns.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 2:42 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Partly supported

Hershenson: 10% of unicorn startups have founders who attended Stanford

“10% of unicorns have founders that attended Stanford.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 5:37 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Opinion

Hershenson: Former Google employees have a surprisingly low founder success rate

“And actually, I think the rate of success of people that came out of founder of Google, relatively speaking, is not that high.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 26:48 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Opinion

Hershenson: Sales is the most important skill, yet universities avoid teaching it

“Teaching sales at a higher educational institution is considered, like, dirty work, so we don't even teach it, right? But it's the most important thing”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 34:11 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Partly supported

Hershenson: Only 2% of all companies have all-female founding teams

“Two percent of all companies have an all-female founder team.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 13:53 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hershenson: CEOs in Pear VC's top 10% portfolio are reading machines

“I have actually gone and looked at our top 10% of our portfolio, and there's one thing those CEOs have in common. They are reading machines.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 15:13 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Supported

Hershenson: Pear VC portfolio companies are worth over $100 billion combined

“I've worked for the last decade with hundred plus startups. They're worth over a hundred billion dollars”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 0:39 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Supported

Hershenson: 42% of surveyed entrepreneurs started a business as children

“So researchers at Northeastern surveyed a hundred, hundreds of entrepreneurs, and they counted that 42% of them had started a business as a kid.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 2:20 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Partly supported

Hershenson: 40% of All-In Summit speakers attended Stanford

“In the All In Summit, I actually went through all the LinkedIns, 40% of the speakers attended Stanford”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 5:42 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Assertion Supported

Hershenson: Former Rappi employees have founded over 100 new startups

“There's been a hundred plus companies created by Rappi employees. It's crazy. Even, almost 50 in Colombia.”

Mar Hershenson May 30, 2022 ▶ 8:42 #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders	May 30, 2022	19m

Mar Hershenson

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