Mahesh: Diagnosed with cancer weeks before presenting Spero spinout to Omidyar
Shripriya Mahesh · Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures · Nov 22, 2020 · at 24:09
Shripriya Mahesh, founding partner at Spero Ventures, describes discovering her breast cancer diagnosis in August 2017 right before seeking board approval to spin out from Omidyar Network.
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“August of 2017, and I had a presentation to Pierre and the board, just about like, hey, here's how we recommend we spin out you know, here's our name, here's how we should structure it, just to get the final approvals, because we'd been working on it. And two weeks before that, you know, I just, I discovered that I'd been diagnosed with breast cancer.”
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