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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.”
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.”
Hershenson: 10% of unicorn startups have founders who attended Stanford
“10% of unicorns have founders that attended Stanford.”
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.”
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”
Hershenson: Only 2% of all companies have all-female founding teams
“Two percent of all companies have an all-female founder team.”
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.”
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”
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.”