I'm an upstate New York lifer.
I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that.
