Serial Entrepreneurship in CAD: SolidWorks and Onshape Founder Jon Hirschtick (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What were you doing at this point that got you to Kleiner Perkins? Jon Hirschtick: I started when I was 24. I was probably 26 years old at this point. I didn’t know what I was doing. Part of being an entrepreneur is, you just keep doing things. You think a bit and

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Serial Entrepreneurship in CAD: SolidWorks and Onshape Founder Jon Hirschtick (Part 1)

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