Hershenson: Former Google employees have a surprisingly low founder success rate
Mar Hershenson · #AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders · May 30, 2022 · at 26:48
Pear VC Founding Managing Partner Mar Hershenson argues at the All-In Summit that comfortable corporate environments like Google fail to teach founders how to handle early-stage startup friction.
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“And actually, I think the rate of success of people that came out of founder of Google, relatively speaking, is not that high.”
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