Renny McPherson

Renny McPherson

Class of 2003, America
Managing Partner, First In (venture capital firm)
Renny McPherson

Thesis Title: Ritual as Intimacy in the Short Stories of Andre Dubus

What Now: Managing Partner, First In (venture capital firm)

Follow Me: @RennyMcPherson (Twitter)

Since I graduated in 2003, the History & Literature concentration has informed my professional path at every step because Hist & Lit teaches how to think not what to think. After serving as a Marine Corps officer and then a researcher at RAND, I returned to Harvard for my MBA, graduating from Harvard Business School in 2011. Over the past several years, I’ve created a platform through which I am simultaneously an entrepreneur and investor on the business side of cybersecurity and data analytics, and an author and podcast host. The ability to frame concepts and dig deeply for what really matters in both the story and the numbers are skills that I first developed as a Hist & Lit concentrator. In my current role as managing partner of a venture capital firm, I identify, partner with, and support mission-driven entrepreneurs building cybersecurity and data intelligence businesses. 


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