Mercedes Bent

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417 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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And then two years later, Furby would come out and it was like, oh, that's what we were talking about at the dinner table the last few years.

And they were like,

Yep.

Yeah.

And that was just constant.

So I had a really lucky upbringing.

My dad taught me coding when I was in high school, VBA mostly.

And I went to Harvard for undergrad.

I started out computer science.

And then the great financial crisis was going on while I was there.

And I thought that was super fascinating.

I ended up working with my Harvard professors at the Fed, both the DC Fed and the Boston Fed in 09 on kind of post-crisis cleanup work.

And then worked at Goldman Sachs for a couple of years, did the asset management thing, got to do a lot of public equities and commodities trading.

And then in 2012, I was like, you know what?

I want to go back to the startup world and back because of my upbringing.

I worked at startups from 2012 to 2019, lots of different roles in consumer frontier tech.

I was the founder of my own company, got to see everything from zero to 100 million in revenue.

I was leading really large teams, 100 people.

and P&Ls of tens of millions.

So got great experience.

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