Katherine Boyle

And so I just sent a letter pretty much every day.

I was like, I'm in Beirut.

Every time I would go to a new place to do a story, I was like, this is the story I'm working on, and I think it's relevant to the class because of this.

And I think after enough annoying emails, and this is a really important life learning, but if you're the most annoying person,

to any admissions group, but really to any company, if you're just constantly pounding down the table, any customer, people just finally give in.

People will not say no 25 times.

So I got in last minute, and it was like, okay, I'm going to Silicon Valley, and I'm just going to figure it out.

Well, you know, it's interesting.

The woman, the mentor who had been at CIA, she was like, do not go to CIA, go to state.

And I was like, that sounds boring.

I don't want to go to the State Department.

There were certain things where I was just like, that's not going to be interesting.

And I also think like...

When I look back at my career, everything I've done has been information trading, but it's been very human-centric.

I wasn't interested in NSA.

I like the human connection.

It's like even in my business career, I was never interested in things that didn't have where you're negotiating with people.

which is a lot what VC is.

I know we'll get into it.

But there's something about the human component where I think that's what I wanted to do.