Started first business at 11: How early entrepreneurship shapes venture investors

yourself and sort of talking us through your your career a little bit up until up until now. Yeah. I'll I'll try to give you the reasonably short story, but Oh, we've got time. We've got time. Alright. I can give you a whole hour version then. No. So, you know, I I grew up in in in Greater Boston, very entrepreneurial as a kid. I my my mom was a small business owner and worked with a lot of small businesses. And so, I don't know, just got driven by entrepreneurship from from my early years, started my first business at age 11, and that kind of carried on through through high school and even into college. And and by the time I was looking at college, I I kinda knew that that's what I wanted to focus on, to, like, kinda be an entrepreneur or at least study business and see where that goes. So I went to Babson College, which, you may know is is very well regarded for its entrepreneurial studies program. It kind of pioneered that as a field of of academia