Kathryn gould biography

          She was born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, where her family owned roller skating rinks.

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        2. She was born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, where her family owned roller skating rinks.
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        4. Katherine Clemmons was born in Illinois, however, her family moved when she was still very young to California.

          5. She was born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, where her family owned roller skating rinks..

          As one of the first women in Silicon Valley, Gould was fierce about forging her own path and she made no apologies for doing so.

          She was a physicist-turned-venture capitalist who sparred with the industry’s best and often seized victory even when the odds were against her.

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          Gould graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of science in physics with plans to be a modern-day Marie Curie.

          After working for the Argonne National Laboratory for five years, she began to wonder if a career in science was really her speed. Gould went back to school and earned her MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth of Business in 1978.

          “When I was where you are…I didn’t have a plan – but I did have an aspiration,” Gould shared with graduates in a 2014 commencement speech.

          “I wanted to go to Silicon Valley and I wanted to work in startups.&rdq