![Career Principles and EdTech Trends with Lightspeed Ventures Partner Mercedes Bent - podcast episode cover](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/5137950/5137950-1705574655623-3a6e72a48314a.jpg)
Episode description
Mercedes’ path to VC is a true convergence of her life experiences — a childhood surrounded by inventors, studies at Harvard and Stanford, finance roles at the Federal Reserve and Goldman, and managing P&L at startups in VR and EdTech, and her long-term goal of empowering communities she cares about. She began her venture capital career at Owl Ventures before joining Lightspeed’s consumer investing team in 2019.