Growth with negative margins is dangerous
- Author
- Mar Hershenson, Pear Ventures, Branch, Doordash, Washio, Tony Xu, Pejman Nozad, Alex Austin
- Published
- Tue 08 Dec 2020
- Episode Link
- https://podcast.sure.ventures/episodes/unit-economics
Mar Hershenson, founding managing partner at Pear Ventures, shares her journey starting as a successful entrepreneur to launching a VC firm with Pejman Nozad. Her authentic description of failure in a startup she founded highlights her lessons as a CEO.
- Founders grow professionally with the company and by consistently investing in themselves
- Pivoting a business for the right reasons can open doors to new opportunities
- Tony Xu, CEO of DoorDash, convincingly explained why the company will be successful which influenced investors
- Growth growth growth with negative unit economics is dangerous
- Non-profit: Harvey Mudd College, Board of Trustees
