MBA student Erica Swallow thought a summer internship at a well-known venture-capital firm would be a perfect way to determine if this should be her career path.
It turned out to be educational, but not in the way she expected.
Erica Swallow speaking at MIT’s Start6, a bootcamp for entrepreneurs Erica Swallow Ms. Swallow, 28 years old, who is about to start her second year at MIT Sloan School of Management, wrote a post on the school’s student blog last week saying that despite having some positive experiences as a summer intern at Boston-based General Catalyst Partners, she learned that “women — beyond the high-heel-studded secretaries and assistants — don’t exist in venture capital.”
Image: Erica Swallow speaking at MIT’s Start6, a bootcamp for entrepreneurs - Erica Swallow
