If you want to know what mentorship really means, I know a woman.

Leah Fessler
Nov 1 · 5 min read
A journal Lauren gifted me in 2018

This week has been shit. This week has also been, in some ways, pure love.

On Tuesday, October 29, Lauren Brown passed away at age 37 (her birthday was two months earlier, in August). Breast cancer killed her, but to me, and so many people, she is still so alive.

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Leah Fessler

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Journalism, VC, early-stage startups. Thinking about gender, equality, and pugs. Formerly at Quartz, Bridgewater Associates, Middlebury. Words matter in tech.

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