Carmen is a Partner at Make in LA, a hardware startup accelerator and venture capital firm that aims to make hardware less hard. She started her career working in finance at Dimensional Fund Advisors and holds several degrees, including one in Sports Management. She is an avid runner, a fearless entrepreneur and we share the unfulfilled dream of being a professional singer. It’s probably not going to happen for either of us.

It’s important to find the intersection between passion, interest and ability.

And “raspberry pie” is apparently a tech term – not necessarily dessert – but it does have something to do with a napkin. I like how tech has so much to do with food.