She escaped the brutal civil war in Lebanon when she was a child. She had to hide in different bomb shelters together with her family. Moved to Canada with her mother and lived in a so-called "Arabic ghetto" neighborhood. "The kids there were so poor they couldn't get breakfast. " She says.
To build a better life she moved to Silicon Valley and worked as an engineer in a male-dominated industry.
The guest of the Verso Talk with Aytakin is Mariane Bekker.
Mariane Bekker is a tech executive with over a decade of experience in building high-performing engineering teams at leading startups like New Relic and Mindbody.
She is currently the Managing Partner at Founders Bay, a premier venture studio for AI startups in the Bay Area, where she connects a community of 45,000 founders and VCs through events, virtual workshops, and fundraising resources.
Also, Mariane runs Women Founders Bay, one of the largest communities of female tech entrepreneurs in the Bay Area, providing vital resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to empower women founders.
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