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Peter Fenton (Partner, Benchmark) on VC and Founder Mindsets, Inflation, and the Current Market State

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How I Oriented My Psyche to Entrepreneurship

I was attracted to the lyric nature of success and entrepreneurship. I studied philosophy which made me suitably unemployable for anything except for getting more philosophy degrees. So even my dad, I didn't tell him I wanted to be a venture capital because God, you know, this last thing you want to do is what your dad did. And I went to a company that's sort of forgettable, but it was to launch their first product where you had to get customers to pay for it. That experience informed me even more that I wanted toBe a venture capitalist. Not that it was hard. But to do that as many times as one can in their career.

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