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Seed to Harvest
🎙️ Seed to Harvest | Stories from Technical Storytellers
Welcome to Seed to Harvest, the podcast by Behind Genius Ventures.
We talk to early-stage founders, operators, and investors—people building with code and conviction. Each episode is a chapter in their story: from the messy beginnings to the quiet pivots, from planting ideas to growing companies that matter.
Expect:
🌱 Honest conversations on the earliest chapters of company-building
🧠Tactical insights from technical minds with narrative soul
✨ Reflections on resilience, rituals, and reinventing what’s possible
This podcast is for the builders who think in frameworks and metaphors. The ones who whiteboard in wild places. The ones writing their own mythologies—one commit, pitch, or poem at a time.
From spark to story.
From seed to harvest. 🌾
Seed to Harvest
CEOs are not born, they are created: Pear VC Managing Partner Mar Hershenson | Ep71
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Today, I'm joined by Mar Hershenson, Managing Partner at Pear VC, where seed specialists partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies. Pear VC founded 10+ companies and invested early in startups now worth over $50B. In just 9 years, Pear VC has seeded 7 companies currently valued at over $1B and 3 public companies. Previously, Mar worked as co-founder/VP for Product Development at Revel Touch and an Entrepreneur in Residence for Foundation Capital.
Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.
Connect with Paige 🌱💜
Behind Genius Ventures blog | https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/
Personal Blog | https://paigefinndoherty.com/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/paigefinnn
00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Mar Hershenson
01:28 what did Mar learn from attending her father’s lectures?
03:25 how has the philosophy of simplicity contributed to Mar’s journey as an entrepreneur?
06:08 raising Pear VC’s first fund
10:56 explaining Pear VC’s ethos
14:07 what is an example of a program that has gone really well?
17:12 what is an example of a program that did not go as planned?
21:43 what is the main mission of Pear VC?
Show notes:
Mar Hershenson | https://twitter.com/MarHershenson
Pear VC | https://pear.vc/
Pejman Nozad | https://twitter.com/pejmannozad
Tony Xu | https://twitter.com/t_xu?lang=en
Pear Garage | https://pear.vc/garage/#:~:text=Pear%20Garage%20is%20a%20community,build%20products%20to%20solve%20them.
Female Founder Circles | https://pear.vc/female-founder-circles/
Vivien Ho | https://twitter.com/VivHo